This creates a mental image of one tall building downtown, a couple of bridges, and lots of pine forest filled with rednecks firing rifles at refrigerators. Part of this deep-red perception might stem from the three military installations in greater Jacksonville, the third-largest military presence in America.
So while the city is still nearer in proximity and culture to South Carolina than it is to South Florida, the cultural gap is narrowing. Let them. I like that Jacksonville is a hidden gem. CoRK -- where her studio resides -- is a series of onetime industrial buildings where photographers, sculptors, musicians, and other artists rent oversized spaces at prices they can actually afford. It sits in the hipster enclave of Riverside, maybe 15 minutes from downtown, where tall pines and palmettos fill the streets, making for a lush residential area filled with historic homes and small business in old brick storefronts.
In the s Jacksonville was a relatively progressive Southern city, a hotbed of artists and jazz complete with one of the first middle-class black neighborhoods in the state, in LaVilla. Ray Charles lived here. It was a place biracial couples came for refuge from the rest of the country.
Through the civil rights era of the s and into the latter part of the 20th century, Jacksonville evolved at a slower, more southerly pace than the rest of Florida. The city focused on attracting big companies -- let the creative small businesses and tourists go to Miami six hours down to the coast.
Many of those folks are natives who, like so many young people, got tired of their hometown and left, only to return when they realized how much that city had to offer. They are determined to bring Jacksonville back to its creative heyday of years ago. But the farther I went away the more I missed home.
The bones of this city are amazing. We have this river running through downtown, the intracoastal. Even locals are bound to stumble across new stuff on the regular.
So next time someone asks you for an interesting fact about Jacksonville, and you reach for that convenient land area zinger, you can now at least offer some more perspective on exactly how impressive the size of Jacksonville and those four Alaskan cities truly is. The Coastal is a local magazine in Jacksonville, FL, founded in to bring you stories about the past, present, and future of the First Coast.
Ok but the vast majority of Jacksonville is very sparesely populated or rural. Miami has over 10 times the population density. Miami proper is roughly thousand and jacksonville is almost 2 times larger in population.
Look at how small Washington, DC is in land area, yet it has about k people less than Jacksonville. But now it all makes sense. The locally-based All rights reserved.
All Jax Evolved. All Beer Reviews. How Big is Jacksonville, Really? Why not sieze the opportunity to save money for your people, and go into the future unified? Not true. Yes, it is obvious that the reason that Jax is the "biggest" city in florida is because of the fact that the city and county are consolidated.
A true measure of how big a city is can be detirmined by using MSA. Im pretty sure that when you do this, all of South Florida, Tampa and Orlando are all bigger than Jax. Why do you need a MSA to measure how big a city truly is Well, I could take the time to denounce your claims, but Jacksonville has nothing to prove.. Taurean, you are exactly right. Jax consolidated and by doing so, growth there has been unprecedented. I've always felt that county government is more for counties that are rural However, if you have a large city in the county, it makes far more sense for city government to be in control.
Usually what happens in a large city affects the county, anyway. As far as gjoseph questioning Jax's size, I have to admit that is a bit juvenile. Northern sports writers did slam Jax in their editorials as they prepared for the trip to the Super Bowl. Incredible idiocy for media who claim to be "well-traveled" throughout the country and the world. Usually this stems from people in the media who believe that New York is the center of the universe, and these pompous attitudes provide the fuel for the editorial slamming that Jax took.
You shouldn't base your opinion on any city from a media-clone who has to be controversial to boost the numbers of readers in the respective paper.
Many other people said their visit to Jacksonville was great, and some companies have already been talking with city officials to locate their HQ in the city.
The city's quality of life has a very high rating, and the city is becoming a newly-discovered Florida gem. Sheesh, I keep wanting to move there before it gets too big! We had one of the biggest haters on Jax in the sports writing community sit in a discussion on a sports radio show whereby he was trapped into admitting he had never once stepped foot in Jacksonville.
Dozens of others had admitted it had been decades since they'd been there and all there claims, such as the paper mill making the air foul, had been remedied years many ago yet they didn't know and continued to preach it as gospel. Several sports writers even apologized after the SB admitting they had very bad information on the city that was severaly outdated or just completely incorrect data to start.
You're correct about the tourism factor. Many, many decades ago it was a national destination but then people realized Florida kept going south for another miles. I think in 20 years what we'll see is a state that has several high quality cities which few states can flaunt. Texas and California being the only two that come to mind.
I worked job which took me in every part of Jax and many people don't know how big it is,you have from northwest village looking area,to hitroric Riverside,old North and West,modern Southside,Downtown,beaches,Mandarin etc etc Jacksonvile has what few other Florida cites do I did a paper once on the topographical and geological diversity of the city.
You are correct in it's diversity and it's not just man made construction either. Pine forests on the west side, swamps on the south side, marsh to the north and tropics on the north and south east coastal areas. There are even some sizable hills in Arlington. As for the urbanity is that a word?
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