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Miami : mistress of the Americas /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nijman, Jan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011]
Series:Metropolitan portraits.
Subjects:
Urbanization > Florida > Miami > History.
Miami (Fla.) > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Early liaisons
  • Shades of a city
  • Extreme makeover
  • The Miami growth machine
  • The birth of a world city
  • Transience and civil society
  • Locals, exiles, and mobiles
  • Elusive subtropical urbanism
  • The first hemispheric city
  • Appendix 1. The transience index
  • Appendix 2. Mapping locals, exiles, and mobiles by census tract.