What neighborhood to melt in hipster culture?
Although the word « hipster » was a term of the 1940s, which originally meant jazz lovers (source: Wikipedia ), it is now present almost everywhere, which goes against the very essence of hipster, which is by definition against current . From Singapore to Stockholm, entire neighbourhoods were invaded by these trendy people. Here. 10 of the world's largest hipster colonies .
10. Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
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This neighborhood. Berlin is deeply rooted in the history of punk rock (Iggy Pop lived here!), and this is the most alternative place in the German capital. Nightlife is very intense. There is even a beach bar with a large floating pool on the river Spree, because the non-floating pools are too much mainstream .
9. Malasaña, Madrid, Spain
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Many consider this neighborhood as the cradle of Spanish nightlife. What is certain is that since the late 1970s, the narrow streets of Malasaña have not experienced a moment of peace, and today they have never been so animated. You can eat and drink some cervezas in a bar with your feet in the sand. Considered as the heart of the counter-culture scene Madrid , Malasaña is a true paradise for fixed bicycles and hipster beards. Hipsters are called "modernos" in Spanish.
8. Tiong Bahru Singapore
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Built in the 1930s, Tiong Bahru was once the part of the city where rich businessmen planted their mistresses. Today, however, it has gourmet restaurants, off-price cafés, and fashionable shops selling scalp glasses and moustache wax. Of course, the premises will never admit that they are connected, but isn’t that what all real hipsters do?
7. Shoreditch, London, in the United Kingdom
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Although other neighbourhoods such as Dalston and Peckham can be considered “the new Shoreditch”, the fact that some call it “the new Shoreditch” is enough to convince you... Like all hipster meeting places, this place with the origins of the working class is the ideal destination for those who wear a hipster. These include companies in vogue and street art.
6. Södermalm, Stockholm, Sweden
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Swedish people love Brooklyn, and we shouldn't be surprised to see that the trendiest neighborhood in the neighborhoods of Stockholm seeks to imitate the emblematic New York neighbourhood. Between the bottles of the Brooklyn Brewery and the fact that there is an area called SoFo, it is difficult to deny the level of influence New York has had on “Söder”. Yes, it is true: no one calls it “Södermalm”, probably because the name immediately evokes IKEA furniture. These furniture are so 2003 ...
5. Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia
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The Fitzroy district welcomes every year Melbourne Fringe Festival , and as such, it attracts all kinds of original and open-minded artists. If Melbourne is Australia’s hipster heart, Fitzroy is its epicentre. There are the most beautiful buildings in the city and the Centre for Contemporary Photography . And when the premises feel that the neighborhood is too populated with "non hipsters" they go to the district of Brunswick, it also guzzles.
4. Vesterbro, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Formerly known for its sex industry, as well as for its large number of butchers working there, Vesterbro has become a flagship place of branching in a city already hip . Plus, Copenhagen is one of the cities where you find a lot of bikes (like Amsterdam), and if there’s one thing that hippies like, it’s bicycles. That, and the backpacks Fjällräven.
3. Amsterdam-Noord, Amsterdamin the Netherlands
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The former industrial warehouses in Amsterdam-Noord have been stormed by the city’s barbus urban explorers, who now use them for art galleries, skate parks, ephemeral restaurants, and music festivals. At the great dam of its inhabitants, the seeds of the burying have already been planted here: Red Bull and MTV have opened offices on the seafront, and smaller startups have also begun to reshape the landscape.
2. Florentine, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Florentine was highlighted by an Israeli TV series of the same name on the life of the young people of Tel Aviv, but it was the mix of traditional culture and contemporary style that finally attracted the hipster crowd here. In a city already known for its Bauhaus style architecture, an inspired street art, and an animated nightlife, Florentine is the place to be for artists, musicians and people who dress like artists and musicians.
1. Williamsburg, New York, United States
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Come on, you knew, in the background, that this neighborhood. New York would arrive at the top of this classification. Although there are certainly arguments to make room for places like Portland, San Francisco or Seattle in the United States, only one reality remains: if the hipsters had a guy, it would certainly be Williamsburg . A world of butterfly knots, trilby hats and chukka boots, where everyone plays amateur photographers with an unnecessaryly expensive digital reflex camera, Billyburg is the birthplace of all hipsters.
Each large world city has its hipster and hipster neighbourhood, but only 10 have been listed here. Do you know others? For example: the surroundings of Canal Saint-Martin in Paris
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