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Cape Town one of the top ten hippest cities in the world
The New York Times says we’re cool
Cape Town has made it onto the list of the New York Time’s hippest cities from around the world. Well, it was simply a matter a time, given the Mother City’s penchant for craft beer, stove-pipe jeans and wayfarers.
The listing comes just weeks after Cape Town was voted Design Capital of The World 2014 and the Table Mountain was chosen as one of the ‘new Nature’: giving Cape Town even more bragging rights. ‘Grant Pascoe, the member of the city's mayoral committee responsible for tourism, said: "These accolades are nice to have but we must turn them into something for the ordinary citizen of Cape Town. You cannot eat an accolade but I'm hoping this will assist us in attracting more investment to the city.”’
For some informative insight as to how exactly these accolades manifest themselves and what they mean for the average Capetonian check out our interview with Bulelwa Makalima-Ngewana the managing director of the Cape Town Partnership.
The survey notes that, ‘despite poverty and crime, overall quality of life indicators rank the city as one of the best in Africa. The survey is not based simply on quality of life or income per capita but instead examines cities that aim to be both smart and well managed.
Co-list makers include:
- Berlin
- Barcelona
- Copenhagen
- Curtiba
- Santiago
- Shanghai
- Vilnus
- Cape Town
- Auckland
- Montreal
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