In the teaser to “The Future We Build,” a new short documentary about what ails Miami, environmental advocate Rachel Silverstein delivers some frank talk about sea-level rise as, behind her, dry-day flooding engulfs the shoreline at Matheson Hammock Park.
Housing advocate Annie Lord points to an affordability crisis that has “exploded.” As vintage clips of traffic jams and endless Miami-Dade single-family suburban sprawl roll, urban designer Juan Mullerat takes aim at poor planning, while University of Miami professor Joanna Lombard calls the resulting disconnection and lack of walkability “deleterious to health and well-being.”
Then, in a subtly unexpected twist, developer David Martin, sitting in his office atop a Coconut Grove parking garage his firm redeveloped, issues an emphatic call to action: “We need to make changes. We must act. We must do things now.”…