Düsseldorf, fashion and industry
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TRAVEL, GERMANY — This April, Christopher Hire from 2thinknow was assessing Düsseldorfas an innovation city, in the 2thinknow World Innovation City rankings for 2008, scheduled to be released in the last quarter of 2008.
A largely industrial city, on the Rhine, Dusseldorf is over 800 years old. The city is known as a fashion and advertising capital, with a major fashion fair annually.
The video contains many of Düsseldorf, ’s more impressive sites, the Rhine and buildings.
Königsallee, is a world-class shopping street, and the city contains various museums and galleries, such as the Museum Kunst Palast of 16-20th centruy art. Kaiserswerth is a famous ruined castle. Alstadt (old town) is popular.
Modern arts figures, like Joseph Beuys, and Wim Wenders, director/producer, are from Düsseldorf. Heinrich Heine, the famed 19th century German poet was born here, and there is a museum to his poetry and life.
As a world city
The city is multi-cultural, and infrastructure like transport world-class, although the station is not as organized as some in Germany.
Yet, culturally, there is a sense of incompletion in Düsseldorf, as it is expensive to live, yet lacks the significant weight of a truly great city such as Vienna or Paris.
An argument could be made that a revived Stuttgart is eclipsing Düsseldorf culturally and industrially, with quality education, many cultural sites and a lower cost of living. Populations are similar, at around 600,000.
Yet in total Stuttgart, Dusseldorf and Cologne (or Koln) are well worth the visit, easily connected by Eurail, and in many ways forming a broader cultural district.
Quite a few Germans live in one city and work in another, something made possible by world-class infrastructure, like ICE trains and Deutsche Bahn.
SAM ROEN - WITH CHRISTOPHER HIRE
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