Is Your Major Metropolitan Area A Smart City? Mine Is. Minneapolis/St. Paul #4
October 06, 2009
I do not put a lot of emphasis on surveys because how one measures, asks questions and differing criteria can give varied results.
But I am competitive.
And I am a homer.
So when The Daily Beast announced the results of their survey and Minneapolis - St Paul is #4 I am going to blog about it.
They ranked cities with 1,000,000+ in population (including suburbs) from 1 to 55 and came up with the following order (click America's Smartest Cities—From First to Worst to get their criteria, slide show and brief commentary on each city):
1) Raleigh - Durham
2) San Francisco - Oakland - San Jose
3) Boston
4) Minneapolis - St Paul
5) Denver
6) Hartford - New Haven
7) (tie) Seattle – Tacoma
7) (tie) Washington, D.C.
9) Portland, OR
10) Baltimore
11) Philadelphia
12) Austin
13) New York
14) Salt Lake City
15) Milwaukee
16) Charlotte
17) (tie) Kansas City
17) (tie) Columbus
19) Nashville
20) (tie) San Diego
20) (tie) Indianapolis
22) Providence
23) Atlanta
24) (tie) St Louis
24) (tie) Chicago
26) Rochester, NY
27) (tie) Pittsburgh
27) (tie) Los Angeles
27) (tie) Richmond
30) Grand Rapids - Kalamazoo - Battle Creek
31) (tie) Cleveland
31) (tie) West Palm Beach
33) Tampa - St Petersburg
34) Tucson
35) (tie) Oklahoma City
35) (tie) Sacramento
37) (tie) Greensboro, NC
37) (tie) Jacksonville, FL
39) Miami
40) Detroit
41) Norfolk, VA
42) Birmingham
43) Cincinnati
44) Buffalo
45) New Orleans
46) (tie) Houston
46) (tie) Orlando
48) Dallas - Fort Worth
49) Phoenix
50) Harrisburg, PA
51) Memphis
52) Louisville
53) San Antonion
54) Las Vegas
55) Fresno, CA
Note that we are also the most literate city in the country as well! (Minneapolis #1, St. Paul #4)
http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/living-well-usn/2008/12/31/americas-11-most-literate-cities.html
Posted by: Elkboy | October 07, 2009 at 03:54 PM