| Description |
ix, 272 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Metropolitan portraits |
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Metropolitan portraits.
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| 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.
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Miami (Fla.) -- History.
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| ISBN |
9780812242980 |
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