Berlin: a certain style

[imomus]

Edit: Two of these photos were taken in Neukolln, the subject of my new Wired piece, Going Tribal in Berlin's "Neubeca".

Comments

[wildbirdcall.livejournal.com]

did you spend all of your time in tourist zones then? what makes a city alive is not necessarily paraded on the streets. besides, we're a city in miniature.

[nato-dakke.livejournal.com]

I beg to differ. What makes a "city" alive IS what is paraded on the streets, otherwise, it might as well be a bedroom community, IE suburb. Maybe it's a nice place to live (I suspect it's not), but it's really not worth a visit.

The public and commercial space of SF is mostly comprised of "tourist zones", especially if the castro now qualifies as a tourist zone. If there is some special magic to living in the $1000 a month apartments that border a small green space, it can be had much cheaper in a city like berlin, without having to deal with the myriad and very scary homeless, and the 10 trillion cars of san francisco.
Maybe the city can't thrive without a successful NFL team.