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Miami, so adept at stirring the imagination of strangers, has always lured visitors and migrants even if few ever ended up staying. Author Jan Nijman presents a careful and revealing dissection of one of the most intriguing cities of our age, one that offers a window into the global urban future.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nijman, Jan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2011.
Colección:Metropolitan portraits.
Temas:
Urbanization > Florida > Miami > History.
Urbanisation > Floride > Miami > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
Urbanization.
Miami (Fla.) > History.
Florida > Miami.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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