ABSTRACT
Every city has its boburbs. I surveyed residents of five other neighborhoods around the country, each distinctive, yet showing a family resemblance to Louisville’s boburbs. Bill Bishop features Travis Heights in The Big Sort, Richard Lloyd’s Neo-Bohemia is about the transformation of Wicker Park, and Charles Murray, ironically, takes Fishtown as an exemplary working-class neighborhood in Coming Apart, before admitting that it is “being taken over by hipsters.” Virginia Highland is a long-time “coolest neighborhood” of Atlanta, and the Pearl District exemplifies the “Keep Portland Weird” spirit.
