Mr. Luzhkov was a hugely significant figure in post-Communist Russia who oversaw Moscow's transformation from the gray Soviet capital to a glitzy modern capitalist city.
While American cities are more safe and more glitzy than ever before, that's not attracting families as much as it's calling to a young professional crowd.
The general trajectory is from gritty to glitzy, from punk assemblages, such as cabinets filled with pills and cigarette butts, to art that looks like bespoke luxury goods.
They range from weekly online-only events that pay out $100 all the way up to glitzy affairs like the Global StarCraft League, a South Korean tournament that pays out 145m won ($127,000) every couple of months.