City Rankings
Familiar Name Tops List of Most Sustainable Cities
23 September 2008 - 2:00pm
Christian Science Monitor
Portland, Oregon, has again been named the most sustainable city in the U.S. in a recent ranking.
Stress City, U.S.A.
23 September 2008 - 10:00am
Forbes
By looking at city data and quality-of-life measures, Forbes has created a list of the most stressful cities in the U.S. Chicago, Detroit and New York rank the highest.
Best-Performing U.S. Cities
21 September 2008 - 1:00pm
Milken Institute
The Milken Institute, an independent economic think tank, has released the results of their study, 'Best-Performing Cities 2008: Where America's Jobs Are Created and Sustained'. Provo, Utah tops the list.
Top 10 Most Livable Cities
20 June 2008 - 5:00am
Monocle Magazine
Monocle Magazine looks worldwide for the most livable cities.
Kiplinger's Rates Top 10 Cities to Live, Work and Play
2 June 2008 - 5:00am
Kiplinger's
Houston tops the list, which includes Des Moines, Boise and Omaha. Yeah, we want to see their criteria too...
On Pride
17 April 2008 - 6:36am
Cities are sized-up, measured and analyzed in countless ways. The Economist uses statistics to indicate how New York’s financial sector is faring against its London counterpart. Richard Florida measures the extant of the creative class. Allan Jacobs carefully records intersection densities and Jan Gehl simply counts pedestrians. Some, like Peter Calthorpe, go beyond the city line and take stock of the whole region.
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Why Metro Denver is Desirable
27 March 2008 - 1:00pm
The Rocky Mountain News
In this article, researcher Richard Florida looks at why and how the Denver area became a "megaregion" and a highly-desirable place to live.
Canada's Top Crime Cities
16 March 2008 - 1:00pm
Macleans
With their high concentrations of marginalized Aboriginal residents, the Canadian prairie cities of Saskatoon, Regina and Winnipeg are ranked the top 3 most "dangerous" cities in the country in the latest Macleans Magazine survey.
The Dirty 25
14 March 2008 - 11:00am
Forbes
Forbes looks at the world's 25 most polluted cities, and concludes that governments and industries need to realize how cost-effective pollution remediation is.
So Many Cities, So Much Mediocrity
3 April 2007 - 1:27pm
Here's an item that should be more than enough to make you spew your morning latte all over the Starbucks:
In a survey, conducted last year and released yesterday by Mercer Consulting, ranking the top 50 global cities by quality of life, not a single American city cracks the top half. Zero.
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