Miami Transformed: Rebuilding America One Neighborhood, One City at a Time

by Manny Diaz

Six-year-old Manuel Diaz and his mother first arrived at Miami's airport in 1961 with little more than a dime for a phone call to their relatives in the Little Havana neighborhood. Forty years after his flight from Castro's Cuba, attorney Manny Diaz became mayor of the City of Miami. Toward the end of the twentieth century, the one-time citrus and tourism hub was more closely associated with vice than sunshine. When Diaz took office in 2001, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812244648
• ISBN13: 9780812244649
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"