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c o n t e n t s Preface vii 1 Early Liaisons 1 2 Shades of a City 23 3 Extreme Makeover 45 4 The Miami Growth Machine 69 5 The Birth of a World City 95 6 Transience and Civil Society 117 7 Locals, Exiles, and Mobiles 137 8 Elusive Subtropical Urbanism 173 9 The First Hemispheric City 201 Appendix 1. The Transience Index 215 Appendix 2. Mapping Locals, Exiles, and Mobiles 217 Notes 221 Index 257 { v } ...

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