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By the early 1940s Miami was still recovering from the Great Depression when World War II started Though many of the cities in Florida were heavily affected by the war and went into financial ruin Miami remained relatively unaffected Early in the war German U-boats attacked several American ships including the Portero del Llano which was attacked and sunk within sight of Miami Beach in May 1942 to defend against the U-boats Miami was placed in two military districts the Eastern Defense Command and the Seventh Naval District; Rock Concourse G is the only one of the original 1959 concourses that has largely remained in its original state save for the modifications the rest of the airport received in the mid-1960s and an extension in the early 1970s It is the only concourse at the airport incapable of handling international arrivals the airport authority plans to maintain the concourse until 2025! . . In the 1980s Miami started to see an increase in immigrants from other nations such as Haiti As the Haitian population grew in Miami the area known today as "Little Haiti" emerged centered on Northeast Second Avenue and 54th Street in 1985 Xavier Suarez was elected as Mayor of Miami becoming the first Cuban mayor of a major city in the 1990s the presence of Haitians was acknowledged with Haitian Creole language signs in public places and ballots during voting, During the mid-2000s the city witnessed its largest real estate boom since the Florida land boom of the 1920s and the city had well over a hundred approved high-rise construction projects However only 50 were actually built Rapid high-rise construction led to fast population growth in the Miami's inner neighborhoods with Downtown Brickell and Edgewater becoming the fastest-growing areas of the city Miami's skyline is ranked third-most impressive in the U.S. behind New York City and Chicago and 19th in the world according to the Almanac of Architecture and Design the city currently has the seven tallest (as well as fifteen of top twenty) skyscrapers in the state of Florida with the tallest being the 868-foot (265 m) Panorama Tower. 1.2 Park decline and restoration Mid-Atlantic Ridge 7.5 Air crashes It involves cross-border transactions of goods and services between two or more countries Transactions of economic resources include capital skills and people for the purpose of the international production of physical goods and services such as finance banking insurance and construction International business is also known as globalization.

The "Tropic" section and its columnist Dave Barry run the Herald Hunt a unique annual puzzlehunt in the Miami area.[citation needed]. . 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, From 1858 to 1896 only a handful of families made their homes in the Miami area Those that did lived in small settlements along Biscayne Bay the first of these settlements formed at the mouth of the Miami River and was variously called Miami Miamuh and Fort Dallas Foremost among the Miami River settlers were the Brickells William Brickell had previously lived in Cleveland Ohio California and Australia where he met his wife Mary in 1870 Brickell bought land on the south bank of the river the Brickells and their children operated a trading post and post office on their property for the rest of the 19th century, There have also been plans to build a soccer-specific stadium at PortMiami the plans were proposed by a group led by David Beckham seeking to bring a Major League Soccer team to Miami the group has stated that they would fund such a stadium privately but there has been opposition on multiple grounds including the added traffic to downtown Miami and the impact on wildlife. . .