Culture
Why Twitter Chose Berlin
The city's affordability and edgy culture is helping turn it into a world-class high-tech center.
Berlin will become the new German headquarters of Twitter, according to recent reports. The city is a long-established center of arts and culture, and in recent years has emerged as an attractive center for both German and expatriates members of the creative class.
But it has, until recently, struggled as a center of high-tech industry. A least one urban economist casts Berlin as the exemplar of a culturally creative city which has failed to stimulate a vibrant high-tech cluster and knowledge economy.