Naissance d’une ville mondiale

World cities are basing points in the organization of markets, sites for the concentration of international capital and the destination of many migrants. As control and command centers, including finance, transport, services and communications, they house big multinational headquarters. Linchpin between North and South America, Miami has a stable political economy. Like Hong Kong, it was developed through the arrival of foreign migrants and capital, which led to a hybrid identity, a “transcultural capitalism”. Like Dublin, Miami’s growth was founded on foreign investment but without the same degree of public intervention. Connected to the world’s business flows, including the cultural industries, Miami remains unusual due to the lack of regional embeddedness of its world city functions.