Vilnius Among World’s Ten Hip Cities
Vilnius is one of the greenest of the former Eastern European capitals and has a forward-thinking city government, according to the daily.
This verdant city is charmingly medieval and surprisingly well maintained despite some communist architectural clunkers and painful retooling of its waste disposal systems.
Vilnius, whose old town is a UNESCO world heritage site, attracts young professionals, and not just from Eastern Europe, who see in Vilnius a rising star in business and appreciate all that the extensive cultural scene in the little capital has to offer. In addition to that, the city takes providing good public transportation seriously, the paper said.
The survey is not based solely on quality of life, number of trees or the cost of a month’s rent, according to The New York Times. “Instead, we examine some cities that aim to be both smart and well managed, yet have an undeniably hip vibe,” the paper said.
The New York Times list also included Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, German capital Berlin, Catalonian capital Barcelona, Cape Town which is one of three capitals of South Africa, Danish capital Copenhagen, Southern Brazil’s largest city Curitiba, Canada’s second-largest city Montreal, Chilean capital Santiago, and Shanghai, China’s main business and industrial centre.
