How Miami actually works
How Miami Actually Works. Miami is a Latin American business capital that happens to sit inside U.S. borders — and these are the people, families, eras, and places that made it that way.
The pillars
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Miami Beach
A barrier island that was dredged into existence and has been re-dredged, culturally, every generation since — Miami's id, its shop window, and the most reinvented seven square miles in America.
Little Havana
The first Latin American capital the United States ever absorbed — and the only neighborhood in America that became more famous as it became less itself.
Doral
The inversion of the whole Miami formula — a Latin American city with no prior American city beneath it, built on drained swamp around a golf resort and conjured into a Venezuelan capital inside U.S. borders.
Art Basel Miami Beach
The marquee contemporary-art fair, launched in 2002, that turns Miami Beach into a global art capital every December.