
Creative class cities bloom and their opposites become walking Detroits.
How to revitalize your city into Rochester 2.0, Detroit 2.0:
- Free houses for artist communities (the aesthetic future starts now); stimulatory homesteading initiatives
- The post-ecotourism fad: ghetto tours; hip hop music and dance classes
- Favorable tax policies and free trade zones like Paul Romer’s Charter Cities program (example: Hong Kong in Honduras)
- Singapore/Korea-like targeted industrial policy (Welcome Stem Cell Research!)
- Social policy liberalization: immigration amnesty, gay marriage, euthanasia, decriminalized marijuana use