Boca Raton is a city of around 100,000 at the southern edge of Palm Beach County, founded as a planned resort community by architect Addison Mizner in the 1920s. The city covers about thirty square miles between the Atlantic coast and the Hillsboro Canal, with a distinctive Mediterranean Revival architectural identity carried forward from Mizner's original vision.
Daily life centers on Mizner Park — an open-air retail, dining, and cultural district anchoring the downtown — alongside the historic Boca Raton Resort (formerly the Boca Raton Resort & Club, originally the 1926 Cloister Inn) and the campuses of Florida Atlantic University and Lynn University. The city also hosts the corporate headquarters of multiple national companies and a significant biomedical research cluster.
Boca Raton is served by the School District of Palm Beach County. The city has retained its planned-community zoning discipline more rigorously than most of its neighbors and remains one of the most architecturally consistent cities in southeast Florida.