How to read this map
This is the evidence layer behind Street Economics® Detection #3, South Dade: A Place to Live, Not Belong. Not Yet. It maps a place and its economy as a network and a lineage: the towns and districts, the people and families, the employers, the transit spine, the Redland, the parks and the water, the gathering places, the plans and agencies, the projects and the capital behind them, and the thin digital layer the sources document. There are no bands on it. That is the point.
Every circle is a place, a project, a station, a road or an event; every dashed circle a person or a family with a documented role; every square an institution: an employer, an agency, a developer, a plan, a program. Colour is the layer of the place the node belongs to. A rose ring marks a documented gathering place. An orange dotted ring marks something Hurricane Andrew wrecked that was rebuilt or replaced. Large open circles are the community hubs: the four municipalities and the census designated places. Node size follows how connected a node is, so the anchors of the place stand out on their own.
Lineage lays the place out on a timeline, left to right by the year each node enters, one lane per layer. The orange line at 1992 is Hurricane Andrew. Network lets the connections pull the map into clusters, which is where you see what sits at the centre and what does not. 3D lets the same network settle in three dimensions. Cities puts everything on a basemap of South Dade cut from Miami-Dade County open data: municipal boundaries, census designated places, the Transitway and its stations, US 1, Krome Avenue and the Turnpike, the two national parks and the base. Every node is pinned at its address or centroid; a node with no address sits at its community’s centroid and its panel says so. Corridor wide nodes sit in the bay, outside actors further out, so neither is mistaken for a place. The countywide context stays off the map; South Dade is the whole frame.
Play runs the timeline as an animation from the railroad to the cutoff in whichever view you are in, and slows at 1992 so the reset is visible: what existed before, what was rebuilt, what arrived after. A place, institution, project or event enters at its founding, opening, incorporation or occurrence year and a person or family at their first documented act. A node with no recorded year enters at the first year the map documents it, never earlier, and its panel says so under Placed at; a node with no dated link at all enters at the cutoff year.
Solid lines are the moves that carry know how and capital: a developer active on a named project, a person or firm moving between two nodes, a plan or business spawning another, a founder, a predecessor becoming a successor. Dashed lines are influence, used only where a source says one thing shaped another. Dotted lines are plans, funding, anchoring, stations and roads connecting places, partnerships and hosting. The faint dotted lines that tie every node to its community are off by default and can be switched on. Click any node and the panel tells its story and lists every connection; Trace lineage lights up everything upstream and downstream along the solid lines.
Scope and rules. The frame is South Dade: Palmetto Bay, Cutler Bay, Homestead and Florida City, and the unincorporated communities of Perrine, West Perrine, Richmond Heights, South Miami Heights, Palmetto Estates, Goulds, Princeton, Naranja, Leisure City, the Redland and Homestead Base. A node is on the map when it carries a founding, opening, incorporation or occurrence year with a source, and at least one documented link to another node. A developer or firm is on the map only with a documented role on a named project; residence alone is never enough. Projects are worded as approved, under construction, delivered or announced from the filing that says so, never as built until a public record says built. Population figures are the map’s own: the eight ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) 33030, 33031, 33032, 33033, 33034, 33035, 33170 and 33189, Census 2010 and 2020 counts and ACS five year totals, stated exactly so they can be reproduced. The eight ZCTA series rises from 191,276 in the 2010 Census to 265,396 in the ACS 2020 to 2024 five year estimate; the largest increase between consecutive displayed series points is 23,391, between the 2010 Census and ACS 2011 to 2015, and the latest displayed step is 10,273. Overlapping five year estimates are not annual changes. Figures on the detection page that this geography does not reproduce are not repeated here. Superlatives are qualified: within this dataset, in the project’s reading. Community hubs are excluded from the centrality tables because every node is located in one by construction, and the located links are excluded from the centrality calculation for the same reason. Community hubs are map geography, not incorporated status. They include four municipalities, census designated places, historical or unincorporated communities (Perrine and the Redland), the corridor wide South Dade hub, and Outside South Dade. A node is assigned to the hub containing its address or, where no address is available, the documented community or a stated centroid. The digital layer records only public, locally rooted information infrastructure that the sources establish as South Dade serving; its thinness reflects the current source set, not a claim that digital community life is absent.
Current cases. Hurricane Andrew, the Transitway, Redland Market Village, downtown Homestead, the population series and the missing centre are singled out in the sidebar because each shows a different mechanism behind the detection’s argument: a reset, a spine, an authentic non downtown, the one place trying to be a centre, the condition that is changing, and a dispersed pattern documented with the detection’s own method. South Dade has many documented destinations and one major historic gathering cluster in downtown Homestead. The mapped pattern is dispersed: . The map documents fragmentation and uneven concentration; the detection’s argument about belonging remains an interpretation of that pattern. A case is featured only when it rests on at least one official, plan or agency source, an independent source for any historical, financial or superlative claim, a date, a defined relationship or event, and a separation of completed from announced activity. Node size and centrality are computed from the dataset and are never adjusted for a case.
Evidence. Data are current through . Activity after that date is described as announced or scheduled, never as completed. Each node carries a confidence grade and source ids in its panel: High means an official site, a public plan, a Census table or two press reports; Medium means Wikipedia or a single press report; Low means a year or detail the sources leave unconfirmed. Connection counts and betweenness are computed on this dataset with every edge type weighted equally and describe position in the map, not size or importance. The owner’s BusinessFlare® client work in South Dade stays out of this reference product; only public documents are used, including public CRA plans cited as public documents.
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