Ives Estates — Ives Estates Map Poster & Print

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Ives Estates Map Poster & Print

Ives Estates is a census-designated place in the northeast corner of Miami-Dade County, close to where the county meets Broward. From above it looks like much of South Florida's postwar suburbia: blocks of single-family streets, some laid out in straight rows and others bending into loops and cul-de-sacs, all framed by wider arterial roads that carry traffic north toward Fort Lauderdale and south toward Miami.

The name is shared with Ives Dairy Road, a reminder that this flat coastal land was farmed before it was divided into house lots. On a map there is little trace of that farming past. What you see is the pattern that replaced it, with small parcels, short streets and a regular spacing of intersections. The coast is only a few miles to the east, but here the land is inland, level and built up almost edge to edge.

An Ives Estates map poster keeps that fine-grained street pattern in plain black lines on white. At poster scale, the difference between the long arterials and the looping side streets becomes the main design, and the eye can follow individual blocks. Ives Estates has no downtown or waterfront skyline to anchor the image, so the drawing takes its interest from the rhythm of neighbourhood streets.