How to read this map
This map is step three of the detection Studios Without Stages made literal: studios without stages; therefore no documented local performance circuit; expose the infrastructure; make the case for the stage; the stage summons the scene; the scene is the thing to build with. The second step is stated as the record shows it: production infrastructure and no documented public stage inside the ring, which is not the same as no scene, because a scene can run through rehearsal rooms, studios, schools, house shows and stages elsewhere in the county and this method sees only what leaves a public trace. The detection page carries the argument; this map is the evidence it links to. It shows two things at once. The lineage: Criteria Recording Studios, opened in 1958 and still running at NE 149th Street and West Dixie Highway, and the producers, engineers, artists, labels and records that flowed through it across the Atlantic, Bee Gees, Hit Factory and current eras. The cluster: the studios, mastering, mixing and rehearsal rooms, four schools, the instrument shop, the repair bench and the record stores strung along West Dixie Highway across North Miami, North Miami Beach, Miami Shores, Biscayne Park and unincorporated Miami-Dade, and the venues with booking evidence, which sit elsewhere in the county.
Every circle is a studio, room, era or artist, every dashed circle a person, every square an institution: a label, a school, a shop, a venue, a development project. Colour is the layer of the corridor. An amber ring marks one of the thirteen landmark records kept as nodes, each carrying its Criteria credit scope (sole studio; recorded at, several studios; partial recording; completed and mixed) in its panel; every other record is an edge from artist to studio with the album and year in its note, so the graph stays about people and institutions. A record becomes a node only when it makes a production line, an artist relationship, a historical transition or the corridor's continuing relevance legible, never because it is famous. A dotted grey ring marks something closed or historical; a dotted pink ring marks something announced and not built. Node size follows how connected a node is.
Lineage lays the corridor on a timeline, left to right by year, one lane per layer, with the anchor's eras across the top. Network lets the connections pull the map into clusters: the dense historical core around Criteria and the living ring around it. 3D settles the same network in three dimensions. Cities is a street level corridor map: the municipal boundaries of the four cities from Miami-Dade County open data (everything outside them is unincorporated county land), the West Dixie Highway centreline, every node with an address pinned at its geocoded location, an amber ring one and a half miles around the anchor, and every countywide venue with booking evidence as a teal pin at its true location, so the empty ring reads against a full county. People, artists, records and labels have no street address, so they cannot be pinned; they sit in a labelled dock drawn over the water east of the coast, sorted into producers and engineers, labels, artists and records, and other, with a note that it is not a place. The dock can be switched off in the Show panel. Use the Ring and County buttons to move between the two scales.
Play runs the timeline from 1958 to the cutoff in whichever view you are in: Criteria alone, then the ring forming around it. A studio, school or project enters at its founding or filing year and a person at their first documented activity. A node with no recorded founding 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 people, ownership and lineage: worked at, founded, became, spawned, produced, mentored. The one dashed line is a documented suggestion (Clapton sending the Bee Gees to Criteria). Dotted lines are records made or mixed at a studio, label relationships, physical adjacency on the corridor and the CRA plan. Click any node for its story, address, jurisdiction, distance from the anchor and every connection; Trace lineage lights up everything upstream and downstream of it through the solid lines. The panel's personnel only figure is the people and production network: worked at, founded or owned, moved to, spawned, became, linked venture, produced or engineered and mentored, with adjacency, records, labels and plans removed.
Scope and rules. The detection's own rule governs inclusion: is it open, and does it feed or support this cluster. Miami-Dade Local Business Tax records are the floor; every addition beyond them is tested against a public listing, the business's own site, a tax record or a planning filing. Historical Criteria sessions carry a recording credit with an album and a year from the label, the artist or a discography reference, and several widely repeated credits are stated as partial or mix only where that is what the record shows. A studio is named only when a public listing, a tax record or its own site confirms a current address and activity; a studio that closed is kept with an end year. Live music venues are identified by booking evidence, exactly as the detection does, and the count within a mile and a half of the anchor is computed from this dataset; the ring is a repeatable proximity test, not a claim that culture stops at a line, and the PDF reruns the count at one, two, two and a half and three miles. The studio count separates publicly verified rooms from tax receipt only nodes, which are graded Low; tax record only is a confidence class, not a privacy class, so those nodes stay named and pinned because the record is public, and no claim is made beyond it. The map uses public business records, business websites, public listings, planning filings, public event calendars and press coverage; it identifies commercial infrastructure, not endorsements or partnerships, and inclusion does not require participation, consent or approval. It corrects factual errors promptly and considers removal requests case by case where a listing is outdated, an entity has closed, publication presents a material safety concern, or the entity is not conducting public facing commercial activity. Private rehearsals, home addresses, house shows, non public artist relationships, unpublished sessions and client lists are not mapped unless already public. The missing asset is defined in the PDF as a minimum viable stage: recurring, affordable, bookable and artist accessible, not a concert hall and not a real estate project. Development projects are cited to public planning filings and worded as proposed, approved or delayed, never as built. Hub is the jurisdiction the pin falls in, by point in polygon against the county boundary layer, not the postal city on the tax record: that is how the anchor itself turns out to sit in unincorporated Miami-Dade. Each person carries a relationship class: personnel connector (moved between two or more mapped studios, labels, artists or records), founding or core member (studio owners, school and shop founders, staff of one room), or institutional connector (label executives, developers and officials, where a documented act exists). Guest support does not apply on this map.
Current cases. Five cases are singled out in the sidebar because each carries one step of the argument: Criteria as the anchor that outlived its eras; the corridor as a cluster no jurisdiction contains; the schools as the pipeline that keeps it fed; the stage that is not there, stated as a documented absence with the detection's method; and the residential projects as the condition that is changing. A case is featured only when it rests on at least one official, county or planning source, an independent source for any historical or superlative claim, a date, a defined relationship or event, and a separation of observed from announced activity. Node size and centrality are computed from the dataset and 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 the business's own site, a county record, a planning filing or two press sources; Medium means a reference article, a directory listing or a single press report; Low means a tax record only, an approximate pin or a detail still unverified. Connection counts and betweenness are computed on this dataset with every edge type weighted equally and describe position in the map, not importance. Superlatives are qualified: within this dataset, in the project's reading. The map is published under Street Economics®; the engine is shared with the Japanese Metal Family Tree, the Tampa Death Metal Family Tree and the Creator Economy Map.
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