Executive Editor JOEL KOTKIN on Las Vegas Weekly regarding Las Vegas

by Kaitlin Hopkins 10/14/2009

"Fortune, of “America’s Most Livable Cities” fame, recently published a protest of all such rankings. Urbanist Joel Kotkin says he prefers cities of “ambitious migrants, families and entrepreneurs” to those promising “safety, sanitation or homogeneity.” Or advanced degrees, let’s say. Kotkin finds an urban standard in 17th-century Amsterdam, which Rene Descartes described as “an inventory of the possible.” Whatever its failures, Las Vegas passes that test."

Joel on Las Vegas Weekly

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