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Lang Matl
Author Nijman, Jan.

Title Miami : mistress of the Americas / Jan Nijman.

Imprint Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011.

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Location Call No. Status
 CCQ - C Ring Library  HT384.U62 F645 2011 c.2  Available
Description ix, 272 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Series Metropolitan portraits
Metropolitan portraits.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject Urbanization -- Florida -- Miami -- History.
Miami (Fla.) -- History.
ISBN 9780812242980