Say It Ain't So!

Joe K. at OrangeCone.com, has put up a post about where the next "cool place" will emerge. Examples of previous cool places are: "Picasso's Paris, Weimar Berlin, Beatnick San Francisco, Swinging London, Post-Wall Berlin and dotcom San Francisco."

So what happens next? I'm betting that the movement moves back out to the suburbs. New Urbanism, which has been simmering for 20 years, seems to be gathering steam and, frankly, it's not because people are suddenly realizing how much more sense it makes; I think developers are realizing that there's a growing market for a new suburban Bohemia, a brand new, prefab, simulated, yet comfortable environment that symbolically links the values of the urban creative class to the manufacturing technology of the burbs.

Oh God. No. Please say it ain't so, Joe!

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