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The global edge : Miami in the twenty-first century / Alejandro Portes and Ariel C. Armony with the collaboration of Bryan Lagae.

By: Portes, Alejandro, 1944-Contributor(s): Armony, Ariel C | Lagae, BryanMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] Description: xix, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: 9780520297104 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780520297111 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Miami (Fla.) -- Social conditions | Miami (Fla.) -- Economic conditions | Sociology, Urban -- Florida -- MiamiLOC classification: HN80.M53 | P67 2018
Contents:
Prescript: in the eye of the storm, 1992 -- Introduction: A city in flux -- The demographic and ecology of the city -- Between transience and attachment -- The economic surge -- Crime and victimization in Miami -- A bifurcated enclave: The economic evolution of the Cuban and Cuban-American Population of Miami -- Miami through Latin American eyes -- The ethnic mosaic and the power elite -- Driving into the flood: Traffic and climate change.
Summary: "Over the last quarter of a century, Miami has transformed into a global city. The Global Edge focuses on the social tensions and unexpected consequences of this remarkable process of change. The rise of a finance and banking center without parallel in the South and the simultaneous emergence of a highly diverse but contentious ethnic mosaic are described and explained. Although Miami is like no other American city, its present condition and future course provides key lessons for other metropolitan areas and for the nation as a whole."--Provided by publisher
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-237) and index.

Prescript: in the eye of the storm, 1992 -- Introduction: A city in flux -- The demographic and ecology of the city -- Between transience and attachment -- The economic surge -- Crime and victimization in Miami -- A bifurcated enclave: The economic evolution of the Cuban and Cuban-American Population of Miami -- Miami through Latin American eyes -- The ethnic mosaic and the power elite -- Driving into the flood: Traffic and climate change.

"Over the last quarter of a century, Miami has transformed into a global city. The Global Edge focuses on the social tensions and unexpected consequences of this remarkable process of change. The rise of a finance and banking center without parallel in the South and the simultaneous emergence of a highly diverse but contentious ethnic mosaic are described and explained. Although Miami is like no other American city, its present condition and future course provides key lessons for other metropolitan areas and for the nation as a whole."--Provided by publisher

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