How to Build a Creative City
Found a great article in Newsweek that made me buy the mag. Its called How to Build a Creative City. QUOTE:
" In recent years new kinds of creative laboratories have emerged?in small university towns like Austin, Texas, and Antwerp, Belgium, in the impoverished neighborhoods of Marseilles, France, and Gateshead, England. Driven out by the high rents of cities like Paris and London, and aided by technology and the growing ease of travel, more artists and thinkers are congregating in smaller, far-flung communities around the world. In Tijuana, Mexico, a new generation of artists is uploading its work onto the Internet for the world to see. In London, an advertising agency relies on copy that?s written in Cape Town?often by someone sitting at a sidewalk cafe, admiring the view of Table Mountain. ?Culture today is globalized and decentralized,? says Vanessa Swartz, a history professor at the University of Southern California. ?From the 1850s to the 1950s, New York, Paris, London, Berlin and St. Petersburg were the artistic centers. Now just as culture has become decentralized, so has creativity. We see avant-garde cultures in smaller places often with young, hip bases.?"
" In recent years new kinds of creative laboratories have emerged?in small university towns like Austin, Texas, and Antwerp, Belgium, in the impoverished neighborhoods of Marseilles, France, and Gateshead, England. Driven out by the high rents of cities like Paris and London, and aided by technology and the growing ease of travel, more artists and thinkers are congregating in smaller, far-flung communities around the world. In Tijuana, Mexico, a new generation of artists is uploading its work onto the Internet for the world to see. In London, an advertising agency relies on copy that?s written in Cape Town?often by someone sitting at a sidewalk cafe, admiring the view of Table Mountain. ?Culture today is globalized and decentralized,? says Vanessa Swartz, a history professor at the University of Southern California. ?From the 1850s to the 1950s, New York, Paris, London, Berlin and St. Petersburg were the artistic centers. Now just as culture has become decentralized, so has creativity. We see avant-garde cultures in smaller places often with young, hip bases.?"
