{"id":2229,"date":"2014-10-01T14:19:32","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T21:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=2229"},"modified":"2014-10-01T14:19:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T21:19:32","slug":"where-does-the-creative-class-go-after-brooklyn-and-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2014\/10\/where-does-the-creative-class-go-after-brooklyn-and-berlin.html","title":{"rendered":"Where Does the Creative Class Go After Brooklyn and Berlin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;yn9axOyZHqiOw8ewg8ssVPhGCVhfNenL&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>RECENTLY we&#8217;ve been hearing that artists and writers are being priced out of Brooklyn, and the search for &#8220;the new Berlin&#8221; &#8212; an affordable city for creatives &#8212; is on. (Krakow? Vilnius?) And is Portland getting better, or worse? A number of stories have tackled the issue from different angles. (It all reminds me of the Talking Heads song, &#8220;Cities.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>This <a title=\"TNR on new Berlin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/119394\/new-berlin-rise-and-fall-cool-cities\" target=\"_blank\">piece<\/a> from the New Republic \u00a0takes the long view.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This way of talking about cities<span class=\"em\">\u2014<\/span>\u201cup-and-coming,\u201d \u201ccool,\u201d \u201cover\u201d<span class=\"em\">\u2014<\/span>is partially the result of a rash of neo-liberal reforms that have had a deleterious effect on the way we think about cities over the past two decades. \u201cFrom the 1980s onwards, national governments pulled investments from cities, and they\u2019ve been needing to compete for investment, jobs, and media attention,\u201d says Jamie Peck, a professor of geography at the University of British Columbia. This means that cities<span class=\"em\">\u2014<\/span>spurred on by globalization and Richard Florida\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/thirtytwomag.com\/2012\/06\/the-fall-of-thecreative-class\/\">highly contested claim<\/a>that the key to urban regeneration is to attract a \u201ccreative class\u201d<span class=\"em\">\u2014<\/span>are now engaged in an aggressive war for buzz and attention.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Thomas Rogers&#8217;s story continues by noting: &#8220;Berlin isn\u2019t the only city trying to sell itself as &#8216;poor but sexy.&#8217; In the past several years, cities ranging from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/07\/03\/fashion\/the-young-and-entrepreneurial-move-to-downtown-detroit-pushing-its-economic-recovery.html?pagewanted=all\">Detroit<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativeclass.com\/rfcgdb\/articles\/Creativity%20the%20key%20to%20Durham's%20future.pdf\">Durham<\/a> have been hoping to rebrand themselves as &#8216;creative hubs,&#8217; whether or n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2230\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/270px-Greenpoint_Houses.jpg\" alt=\"270px-Greenpoint_Houses\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" \/>ot that label has any bearing on reality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This dynamic &#8212; the move of creative types into a city or neighborhood, and their eventual ejection after the place becomes too expensive &#8212; is something we&#8217;ll be talking about, and struggling with, for a long time to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;yn9axOyZHqiOw8ewg8ssVPhGCVhfNenL&#8221;] RECENTLY we&#8217;ve been hearing that artists and writers are being priced out of Brooklyn, and the search for &#8220;the new Berlin&#8221; &#8212; an affordable city for creatives &#8212; is on. (Krakow? Vilnius?) And is Portland getting better, or worse? A number of stories have tackled the issue from different angles. 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