There is a follow up to this work "The Global Edge" released in 2018 which provides a more up-to-date view of Miami. I read both in 2020, and I felt both together gave me a better overview than either one alone would have.This book in particular I appreciated because of its detailed treatment of the early settlement of Miami, the initial Cuban diaspora's settlement, and the Mariel crisis. If you are somebody from the area, or settling permanently, I think it behooves you to learn about these events. If you're not a local or prospective local though, I think Global Edge probably is good enough to understand the city (and probably better, given its more recent data).Some of the other reviews complain about the writer being biased against Cubans. I'm not Cuban myself and I wouldn't even consider myself to be left-leaning, but I felt the author actually did a good job of neutrally treating the subject. I never got the impression the author was being uncharitable in his treatment of the narrative.