Uncool Cities - the reality of contemporary urban environments
09 Nov 2005
From London and Berlin to Sydney and San Francisco, civic authorities agree that the key to urban prosperity is appealing to the "hipster set" of gays, twentysomethings and young creatives. But the…
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The Big Idea Editor
From London and Berlin to Sydney and San Francisco, civic authorities agree that the key to urban prosperity is appealing to the "hipster set" of gays, twentysomethings and young creatives. But the only evidence for this idea comes from the dot-com boom of the late 1990s €”and that time is over ...
Joel Kotkin
Image: After centuries of community antipathy gays are suddenly the new 'must have' for any cool urban city.