1.5 Name change In 2004 the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) reported that Miami had the highest proportion of foreign-born residents of any major city worldwide (59%) followed by Toronto (50%), Two new light rail systems Baylink and the Miami Streetcar have been proposed and are currently in the planning stage BayLink would connect Downtown with South Beach and the Miami Streetcar would connect Downtown with Midtown. . After Fidel Castro rose to power in Cuba following the Revolution in 1959 many wealthy Cubans sought refuge in Miami further increasing the city's population Miami developed new businesses and cultural amenities as part of the New South in the 1980s and 1990s At the same time South Florida weathered social problems related to drug wars immigration from Haiti and Latin America and the widespread destruction of Hurricane Andrew Racial and cultural tensions sometimes sparked but the city developed in the latter half of the 20th century as a major international financial and cultural center It is the second-largest U.S city with a Spanish-speaking majority (after El Paso Texas) and the largest city with a Cuban-American plurality. . . Southeast Financial Center the tallest skyscraper built in the 1980s office boom.
The metropolitan area is governed by 3 counties in total there are 107 municipalities or incorporated places in the metropolis Each one of the municipalities has its own city town or village government although there is no distinction between the 3 names Much of the land in the metropolis is unincorporated which means it does not belong to any municipality and therefore is governed directly by the county it is located in. . Indian Creek 5.7 Government 12 See also 4.2 Water masses Central and Southern Florida Flood Control Project Main article: List of communities in Miami-Dade County Florida. Miami experienced a very rapid growth up to World War II in 1900 1,681 people lived in Miami Florida; in 1910 there were 5,471 people; and in 1920 there were 29,549 people as thousands of people moved to the area in the early 20th century the need for more land quickly became apparent Until then the Florida Everglades only extended to three miles (5 km) west of Biscayne Bay Beginning in 1906 canals were made to remove some of the water from those lands Miami Beach was developed in 1913 when a two-mile (3 km) wooden bridge built by John Collins was completed During the early 1920s the authorities of Miami allowed gambling and were very lax in regulating prohibition so thousands of people migrated from the northern United States to the Miami region This caused the Florida land boom of the 1920s when many high-rise buildings were built Some early developments were razed after their initial construction to make way for larger buildings the population of Miami doubled from 1920 to 1923 the nearby areas of Lemon City Coconut Grove and Allapattah were annexed in the fall of 1925 creating the Greater Miami area, I-195 Parkland, Miami Florida Business directory.
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