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
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
Oh, so you're applauding gentrification, huh?
1-6 are already what the author said they will become. actually, most of the list is like 20/20 hindsight
It lists Brooklyn as a city, and also refers to it as one. Brooklyn is a borough\county [[Kings County).
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)
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?
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.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)
Um, Detroit is considered a "small" city?According to a recent YPulse survey, more and more millennials are opting to live in small cities, like Detroit.
What?? No Ann Arbor?
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
What with the way the weather's been lately, I thought Lowell was posting about global warming.
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...
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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?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...
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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.
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Isn't Michigan State the state's A&M school?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...
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Yes, and the first Land Grant Institution, first pursuant to a State grant then Federally through the Morrill Land Grant Act. That act also begat Penn State the same year...which IIRC, was originally a vo-tech type high school for farmers.
But yeah, contemporary news reports do speak of the incredibly anti city animus in the founding of a State subsidized agricultural school in such a remote area.
Last edited by bailey; July-02-12 at 03:07 PM.
Anti-city is right. The Founding Fathers felt that cities would corrupt and commercialize state Capitols and state universities. Little did they know that their pastoralism would translate into "anti-city 'cities'"...
I've been saying that Detroit is the City of the Future for a long time now. Just not for the reasons listed. Detroit...coming soon to a city near you. Seems like it's already starting to arrive in lots of places. Remember all those jokes you guys made? They sure were funny. We're used to living like this; everybody else go ahead and cry like little girls.
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