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Gentrifying downtown: a new urban politics is tailoring cities for affluent whites, but communities are pushing back--with a theory of their own.(FEATURE)
MANNY DIAZ HAS A VISION, and he's made no secret of it. As the mayor of Miami, Diaz wants to cement the city's position as an economic, political and cultural hub for the Americas and pursue the holy grail of mayors everywhere: world city status. Diaz, perhaps unlike other mayors though, is well positioned for this quest. He was recently elected head of the United States Conference of Mayors and hosted this year's Super Bowl, one of those big-ticket events that many aspiring world cities in the United States fall over each other to attract.
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