Place-particularity and "deep analogies": A comparative essay on Miami's rise as a world city

Urban Geography

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 92-107

  Nijman, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative urbanism; Historical geography; Miami; Political economy; World city

Indexed keywords

GLOBALIZATION; POLITICAL ECONOMY; URBAN GROWTH; WORLD CITY;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; MIAMI; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34247265900     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.28.1.92     Document Type: Article

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