Street Economics® · Detection #2 · Reference
NMB AsiaTown
A network and lineage map of the Asian commercial district along 163rd Street in North Miami Beach: the grocers, kitchens, plazas, streets, civic bodies, events and precursors, how the district assembled itself, and what tends to happen after a district like it is seen
Reading the mapA district is a network before it is a nameWhat the nodes and lines mean, the inclusion rules, timeline placement, the people rule, hub regions, the jurisdiction split and the eleven layers of the place.The districtHow it assembled itself, with no one's permissionHow the district assembled itself around its grocers, decade by decade, from the 1941 building on 163rd Street to the night markets, with the accretion curve.Current casesFour mechanismsFour mechanisms: the anchor grocer, the night market as recognition trigger, the built anchor against the organic cluster, and the North Miami counter case, with status as of the cutoff.RecognitionWhat the record shows the district being calledWhat the record shows the district being called, by whom and when, and what is not in the record.ReferenceHow districts get seenNine organically formed Asian districts and five manufactured ones on eight milestones, the medians computed from the table, and where NMB AsiaTown sits.Network metricsWhat holds the district togetherDegree and betweenness computed on this dataset, on the full graph and on the location and lineage graph.MethodConfidence and sourcesConfidence grades, the evidence standard, the basemap and pin sources, hub regions, terminology, open items and the source register.AppendixIndex of nodesEvery business, place, body and event on the map, grouped by layer, each with its own entry.
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