| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 272 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Metropolitan portraits.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Urbanization -- Florida -- Miami -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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Urbanization
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| SUBJECT |
Miami (Fla.) -- History
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| Subject |
Florida -- Miami
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010025223 |
| ISBN |
9780812207026 |
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0812207025 |
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1283897520 |
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9781283897525 |
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