On saterday we went to Austin, while in Austin we went to a muesume called The Blanton, we went to the stevie ray vaughn statue and we went to threadgills for live music. The importance of these activities is that Austin is thriving right now and is a very diverse city, both things a urban leader is trying to achive. Before the blanton, we talked with Dr. Slattery about the creative class and book dicussing the importance of this class. The creative class are all the people who live in a city who are musicians, artists, gay or work in the technology sector. It is these people who create ideas and really make a city move foward, and Austin has a great creative class. In fact on this book it is the second city in this top ten creative class list.
As to my experence is Austin, I am from austin so there wasn't a lot of new things for me. However, I love Austin and The Blanton is a great museum which I always enjoy going to. In fact I plan to go on my return to Austin to look at their new traveling exibit which will give perspective on their permanent exibits. I enjoyed the music but I do see a lot of live music. The hightlight, however was my parents coming to see me while we were at threadgills.
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