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Culture Creates Successful Cities?
October 31, 2006
Posted by: Carol
In an October 20 essay in The Wall Street Journal, Julia Vitullo-Martin explores a controversial cause for urban success: culture. She claims that successful cities share two cultural characteristics: combativeness and cunning. She argues that the heavy presence of these traits in New York and Boston explains why they have succeeded. Vitullo-Martin, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, also describes Chicagoans as thinking "about beauty in a way that New Yorkers do not," resulting in Chicago becoming "what is probably the most beautiful of postindustrial cities."
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