The global edge : Miami in the twenty-first century /

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"Over the last quarter of a century, Miami has transformed into a global city. The Global Edge focuses on the social tensions and unexpected consequences of this remarkable process of change. The rise of a finance and banking center without parallel in the South and the simultaneous emergence o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Portes, Alejandro, 1944- (Autor), Armony, Ariel C. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Lagae, Bryan (Investigador)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Temas:
Sociology, Urban > Florida > Miami.
Sociologie urbaine > Floride > Miami.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Economic history.
Social conditions.
Sociology, Urban.
Miami (Fla.) > Social conditions.
Miami (Fla.) > Economic conditions.
Florida > Miami.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prescript: in the eye of the storm, 1992
  • Introduction: A city in flux
  • The demographic and ecology of the city
  • Between transience and attachment
  • The economic surge
  • Crime and victimization in Miami
  • A bifurcated enclave: The economic evolution of the Cuban and Cuban-American Population of Miami
  • Miami through Latin American eyes
  • The ethnic mosaic and the power elite
  • Driving into the flood: Traffic and climate change.

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