Disturbances by Hamburgs Creative Class – “Not in our Name, Marke Hamburg!”
6. November 2009 Weekly Darlin
“Cities without gays and rock bands are losing the economic development race”. US-economist Richard Florida stated, that cities only grow when a vital and active “creative class” exists and feels comfortable. If Florida is true, Hamburg is on the best way to become a dead town.
A dead town only likeable and livable for uncritical Disneylandish culture-consumers, for moneygrubbing estate-speculators and for those tasteless thinkers who consider branded-spaces sustainable, urban environment.
HAMBURG HAS A PROBLEM. On Sounds like Me, i wrote more about this political dead-end situation and the riot of Hamburgs “creative class”. Read here and support there. Photo by Miguel.
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