Miami, ville-modèle de quelle Amérique ?

Miami is a « swing city » between the North and the South of the American continent : El dorado for many people from the Caribbean and Latin America it also serves as a fresh concrete slab to gain for speculators and developers from all walks of life. This city, which recently emerged in the hierarchy of American cities, concentrates heterogeneous populations with a diverse array of urban practices and representations of the city. Since the 1960s and the victory of Castro?s revolution, Miami is the theater of incessant migrations and a remarkable urban sprawl extending the agglomeration to the South and the West of the county. In this very weakly planned urban area, the rapid urban changes (demographic and economic) question the current processes of urban «distancing»: segregation and fragmentation. In this article, we try to understand how intense circulations that drive the city played in the advent of spatial, social and affective distances characteristic of Miami.