Hipsters

Chapter 1

Vancouver and the great hipster reshuffle

Where once everyone swooned over Vancouver’s tony west side, today’s hipsters are all about the east. We chatted with an urban-planner who’s charting their influence in Vancouver.

Chapter 2

Hipster 2.0: the tech worker

There is a more recent arrival to the urban scene: the young tech worker. Here we look at east London’s Tech City, also known as the Silicon Roundabout, a hub of established tech firms and start-ups among some of London’s most deprived communities. Ben Rogers, director of the Centre for London, tells us how this mix can be beneficial.

Chapter 3

The historical hipster: Vienna in 1901

While many argue that the hipster is quite a recent trend, we traced it back to early-20th-century Vienna. The essayist and historian Joseph Pearson tells us why he thinks 1901 Vienna was a great place to be a creative.

Chapter 4

Israel’s “haifsters”

Ayed Fadel seems like a hipster. He co-owns a bar in an up-and-coming area of Haifa, he’s a founding member of an art collective and he has the look. But as a Palestinian citizen of Israel, him and the rest of the Haifa hipsters, dubbed as “Haifsters”, are breaking with tradition and creating an alternative lifestyle that otherwise wouldn’t exist .