Newsweek examines the common features of international cultural meccas. How does your city shape up?
" In recent years new kinds of creative laboratories have emergedin 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 thats written in Cape Townoften by someone sitting at a sidewalk cafe, admiring the view of Table Mountain."
Thanks to Chris Steins
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