Miami
Subtitle: mistress of the Americas
By: Jan Nijman
Series: Metropolitan portraits; Metropolitan portraits
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780812242980
Subjects: Urbanization; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Early liaisons; title: Shades of a city; title: Extreme makeover; title: The Miami growth machine; title: The birth of a world city; title: Transience and civil society; title: Locals, exiles, and mobiles; title: Elusive subtropical urbanism; title: The first hemispheric city; title: Appendix 1. The transience index; title: Appendix 2. Mapping locals, exiles, and mobiles by census tract.