The 15 Hottest American Cities of the Future - Guess who's is #7

**Lowell** · June-30-12, 02:41 PM

Damn the word's gotten out. OK who spilled the beans!? Now everyone will want to come and all our cool off beat places will be swamped.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-15...he-future.html

**thecarl** · June-30-12, 02:54 PM

Oh, so you're applauding gentrification, huh?

**rb336** · June-30-12, 03:07 PM

1-6 are already what the author said they will become. actually, most of the list is like 20/20 hindsight

**Scottathew** · June-30-12, 07:44 PM

It lists Brooklyn as a city, and also refers to it as one. Brooklyn is a borough\county [[Kings County).

**Patrick** · June-30-12, 09:22 PM

According to a recent YPulse survey, more and more millennials are opting to live in small cities, like Detroit.

Um, Detroit is considered a "small" city?

**rb336** · June-30-12, 09:28 PM

Brooklyn used to call itself the 4th largest city in the US. The boroughs were all independent cities until around 1900, and they all still feel like distinct cities. [[heck, Sheepshead Bay and Bay Ridge almost feel like distinct cities too). Brooklyn has it's own government, police force [[Kings County Sheriff - Ed Domanech). Its residents are justifiably proud of its history, and a fair number of them would vote to secede from the city if given a chance.

I've heard, but can't confirm, that even Bed-Stuy is becoming gentrified [[I remember my GF's family would not let me go to the bus stop after Thanksgiving dinner one year and insisted that I stay IN the apartment until the car service showed up, then they all walked me to the car. I thought they were being silly until another white guy got killed at that bus stop the next night)

**Scottathew** · June-30-12, 09:35 PM

Originally Posted by Patrick

Um, Detroit is considered a "small" city?

I just got back from Toronto, and it did make me feel rather insignificant.

**Bham1982** · June-30-12, 09:51 PM

Originally Posted by rb336

I've heard, but can't confirm, that even Bed-Stuy is becoming gentrified

Bed Stuy has been gentrifying like crazy lately. The last time I passed through I couldn't believe it. Million dollar brownstones and precious little independent boutiques and eateries popping up everywhere. You hear Japanese, German, etc.

The list is a little silly since, as others have mentioned, it doesn't really read as a forward-looking piece. I mean, Portland will become popular with hipsters? Brooklyn will attract creatives? Seriously? Was this written in 1990?

**iheartthed** · July-02-12, 09:03 AM

Originally Posted by rb336

Brooklyn used to call itself the 4th largest city in the US. The boroughs were all independent cities until around 1900, and they all still feel like distinct cities. [[heck, Sheepshead Bay and Bay Ridge almost feel like distinct cities too). Brooklyn has it's own government, police force [[Kings County Sheriff - Ed Domanech). Its residents are justifiably proud of its history, and a fair number of them would vote to secede from the city if given a chance.

I've heard, but can't confirm, that even Bed-Stuy is becoming gentrified [[I remember my GF's family would not let me go to the bus stop after Thanksgiving dinner one year and insisted that I stay IN the apartment until the car service showed up, then they all walked me to the car. I thought they were being silly until another white guy got killed at that bus stop the next night)

Yes, Bed-Stuy is gentrifying lightning fast. The area had been in some stage of gentrification for some time but the recession slowed that down. Now it's back to full speed. It's probably the fastest gentrifying neighborhood in all of NYC right now.

**DetroitPlanner** · July-02-12, 11:03 AM

What?? No Ann Arbor?

**iheartthed** · July-02-12, 11:12 AM

Originally Posted by DetroitPlanner

What?? No Ann Arbor?

To be honest, Ann Arbor is "gentrifying" too. The demographics aren't changing but there has been a ton of infill going on over the past 6-7 years since the green belt was implemented.

**Detroitnerd** · July-02-12, 11:27 AM

Originally Posted by DetroitPlanner

What?? No Ann Arbor?

Ann Arbor will continue to be a city that lives on unearned wealth in a state that otherwise strangles cities.

**p69rrh51** · July-02-12, 11:50 AM

Originally Posted by thecarl

Oh, so you're applauding gentrification, huh?

Besides the usual "party" line on gentrification, what are the real reasons not to applaud it.

**rb336** · July-02-12, 11:58 AM

Originally Posted by Detroitnerd

Ann Arbor will continue to be a city that lives on unearned wealth in a state that otherwise strangles cities.

what the f* do you mean by that?

**313WX** · July-02-12, 12:10 PM

Originally Posted by rb336

what the f* do you mean by that?

University of Michigan.

It's very hard for Ann Arbor NOT to be a vibrant small town with a top 100 University in its borders

**gameguy56** · July-02-12, 12:11 PM

Originally Posted by DetroitPlanner

What?? No Ann Arbor?

Ypsi is the new Ann Arbor.

**downtownguy** · July-02-12, 12:16 PM

What with the way the weather's been lately, I thought Lowell was posting about global warming.

**rb336** · July-02-12, 12:51 PM

Originally Posted by 313WX

University of Michigan.

It's very hard for Ann Arbor NOT to be a vibrant small town with a top 100 University in its borders

how is that "unearned"? UM is actually, world-wide, ranked #14, the highest of any public university
http://www.topuniversities.com/insti...rsity-michigan

the QS system is probably the most transparent and consistent in their ranking methodology

**Detroitnerd** · July-02-12, 01:03 PM

Originally Posted by rb336

how is that "unearned"? UM is actually, world-wide, ranked #14, the highest of any public university
http://www.topuniversities.com/insti...rsity-michigan

the QS system is probably the most transparent and consistent in their ranking methodology

Oh, no! Did somebody make fun of Ann Arbor? What's the world coming to!

Honestly, you look at the government support for the university, the billions of dollars in endowments, the support from the families who send their kids there armed with credit cards, all the money coming from public and private sources, and Ann Arbor is a success, naturally. A shining city in a valley.

That's why it's home to people like Rick Snyder, the same guy who wants to crush all the cities that would dare need revenue-sharing from the state, and who have the temerity to want their own democratically elected leaders.

But don't pay attention to the way Ann Arbor is flooded with money and a captive population of rich kids. I'm sure they're just smarter than all the other struggling cities where they used to actually make stuff.

**313WX** · July-02-12, 01:41 PM

Originally Posted by Detroitnerd

Oh, no! Did somebody make fun of Ann Arbor? What's the world coming to!

Honestly, you look at the government support for the university, the billions of dollars in endowments, the support from the families who send their kids there armed with credit cards, all the money coming from public and private sources, and Ann Arbor is a success, naturally. A shining city in a valley.

That's why it's home to people like Rick Snyder, the same guy who wants to crush all the cities that would dare need revenue-sharing from the state, and who have the temerity to want their own democratically elected leaders.

But don't pay attention to the way Ann Arbor is flooded with money and a captive population of rich kids. I'm sure they're just smarter than all the other struggling cities where they used to actually make stuff.

Or in essence, Ann Arbor is an otherwise rural town that's been heavily subsidized by the government through the public education system.

It's nice and all for its small town charm [[like all of the other places in Michigan besides Detroit), but let's not elevate it higher than what it is, a quaint college town that was otherwise in the middle of nowhere. It'll never make up for where Detroit fails in Michigan. A very sizable number of the College Students that live there leave immediately for Chicago after they graduate

**Detroitnerd** · July-02-12, 02:06 PM

What a shame American states for the most part exiled their Capitols and A&M schools to the boondocks. Now glorified cowtowns think they're somehow more virtuous [[when the rest of the state pays their way), and the cities are robbed of architecture and institutions...

end rant

**DetroitPlanner** · July-02-12, 02:29 PM

Oh for Petes sakes, I was just being a smart alek... Don't read too much into my comment and come to its defense. Whaddya a bunch of wolverines?

BTW, Detroit has a lot more college students taking classes in it than AA does. AA only has one college, we have at least four. Between WSU, UDM, CCS, WC3 city campuses we rule!

In terms of percentage of population? not so much.

**bailey** · July-02-12, 02:39 PM

Originally Posted by Detroitnerd

What a shame American states for the most part exiled their Capitols and A&M schools to the boondocks. Now glorified cowtowns think they're somehow more virtuous [[when the rest of the state pays their way), and the cities are robbed of architecture and institutions...

end rant

Are you seriously ranting that AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS, some of which were founded over 150 years ago, are somehow a boondoggle because they were located in a RURAL AREA? Where would you like the cow college to be? 7 mile and Conant?

Also, UM [[already a school before Michigan even existed as a state) was Ann Arbor's consolation prize after not being chosen as the State Capitol.

Not everything that happened in Michigan government in the last century and a half is a conspiracy to screw Detroit.

The real shame here is that Wayne State, the state's 3rd largest state university and no slouch in the subsidy department, for so long failed so miserably at being a magnet for Detroit the way just about every other school located major cities are.

**p69rrh51** · July-02-12, 02:45 PM

Originally Posted by DetroitPlanner

Oh for Petes sakes, I was just being a smart alek... Don't read too much into my comment and come to its defense. Whaddya a bunch of wolverines?

BTW, Detroit has a lot more college students taking classes in it than AA does. AA only has one college, we have at least four. Between WSU, UDM, CCS, WC3 city campuses we rule!

In terms of percentage of population? not so much.

And one of them is in the top 200!

**iheartthed** · July-02-12, 02:51 PM

Originally Posted by Detroitnerd

What a shame American states for the most part exiled their Capitols and A&M schools to the boondocks. Now glorified cowtowns think they're somehow more virtuous [[when the rest of the state pays their way), and the cities are robbed of architecture and institutions...

end rant

Isn't Michigan State the state's A&M school?