I like the message, but I also think it cuts both ways.<p>Take Chicago for example. When I moved to Chicago five years ago, Wicker Park was the &quot;hipster&quot; neighborhood, where many of the exciting cultural events (at least for people in my age group, young 20 somethings) were happening. By the next year, Wicker Park had become too trendy and gentrified, and all the hipsters moved further west to Logan Square. Today Logan Square is too upscale, and the hipsters have moved south into Pilsen, forcing many of the local hispanic families out of the neighborhood because of rising prices. Now there are organic juice bars sprouting up in Pilsen and the gentrification process is starting anew.<p>This is almost exactly the pattern described in the article, except it&#x27;s the people who <i>want</i> authentic communities that are causing the problem! It&#x27;s a catch-22: if you don&#x27;t like your community you can try to go elsewhere, but a few years after you do you will hate your vapid community again. In this case it&#x27;s the drive for culture that causes monoculture. Once something is seen as authentic people flock to it and it becomes trite. How can you deal with that?