Fast Company has just published its annual listing of the world’s "Fastest Cities," i.e, the places best suited to support innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship. The list is very eclectic, broken into categories such as start-up hubs (Austin, Madison, Tucson and London), creative class meccas (Shanghai, New York, San Francisco and Buenos Aires), green leaders (Chicago, Portland, Vancouver and Stockholm) and high-tech hotspots (Hanoi, Chandigarh, and Boise).
The issue also includes unenviable lists of "slow cities" (Budapest, St. Louis, New Orleans, Detroit and Havana) and "too fast cities" where future risks outweigh current upsides (Cairo; Almaty, Kazakhstan; Greenwich, CT; Las Vegas, and Shenzen).
The "Fast Cities 2007" list appears in the July 2007 issue of Fast Company and is available on-line at: http://www.fastcompany.com/cities/2007
This story is from the National Dialogue on Entrepreneurship© 2007 The Public Forum Institute
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