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Boulder didn't copy that, Boulder has been that way since the late 70's, tech just happened to move here and the culture was already in place.
by ProAm 10y ago
Boulder didn't copy that, Boulder has been that way since the late 70's, tech just happened to move here and the culture was already in place.
- davidw 10y agoFair enough. It just struck me how they've managed to get a lot of the good stuff right when so many places are trying - and not doing a great job - to copy Silicon Valley, but also have that exact same NIMBY problem. William Fischel draws some links with environmentalism in Zoning Rules! ( http://amzn.to/2oIKbyM http://amzn.to/2oIKbyM ) which make sense. Not that he's against it, but just that it sometimes gets a bit perverted to further the ends of NIMBYs rather than actually protecting much of anything. Making people drive 15 miles back and forth to Longmont isn't terribly great for the planet in some ways. In any event, both SF and Boulder are both places that do have a strong sense of environmentalism (in a lot of good ways too, I think), so that could well be the connection. Edit: Exhibit A: SF's Sierra Club fighting to save... a parking garage. http://thebaycitybeacon.com/32740/282282/a/the-sierra-club-fights-to-savea-parking-garage http://thebaycitybeacon.com/32740/282282/a/the-sierra-club-f...