Downtown is diversity — architectural, socioeconomic, generational, ideological, and ethnic. Splendorous and edgy. An illustrated tour in six chapters. — Chapter 1: Definitions Not seldom overlooked by visitors in search of more flashy adjectives, partying South Beach, artsy Wynwood, posh Design District, even Brickell, the Manhattan of the South. “Downtown needs no hyperbole,” a poet told me. “Downtown is a state of mind in perpetual evolution.”