"You can tell a place is undergoing gentrification when a coffee shop, a bookstore and an organic health food market pop up in an area littered with fast food joints and ramshackle warehouses.
But clues that a city is really going through a post-industrial revival are much more subtle. Hipster stores and yoga studios aren't the only things that make the place. Other factors play into transforming a city from wasteland to wonderland, like real culture, noteworthy attractions and of course great places to eat and drink.
We explored less devoured budget travel gems --Detroit, Pittsburgh, Buffalo and Minneapolis, cities once balanced on the economic precipice only to sustain as a stronghold for independent artists, forward-thinking entrepreneurs and corporate backers -- and looked at how they're being transformed into unique vacation destinations worth a second look."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2012/07/30/post-industrial-cities/#ixzz22LzganHm
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