lunes, 22 de octubre de 2012

From Bloomberg BusinessWeek: Las 50 Mejores ciudades/Fifty Best Cities


Es el segundo año que Business Week construye este indicador (entretenimiento, educación, economía, delitos,calidad del aire). La única ciudad de Florida es TAMPA que por mucho tiempo ha trabajado para ser lo que es. Varias cosas que pensar/ Business Week has done it for second time, based on leisure, education, economy, crime, air quality. The only one city from Florida is TAMPA, with a long time effort to enhance itself. Several things to think about:

1.- No siempre coinciden los números con las aspiraciones. (Imaginense diciendole a la familia: nos mudamos para Anchorage, Alaska para vivir mejor…) Ese es un viejo problema (los matemáticos que descubren las mejores dietas por costo/persona saben hace rato que no hay quien se las coma…)/ Human aspirations and numbers not always go in par (Just wonder how to tell your family they are moving to Anchorage, for a better living…) It is an old problem (mathematicians discover best diets based on cost/person but there is no way that people eat them…

2.- Nuestros líderes civicos debian de pensar sobre el tema para descubrir la receta adecuada para que nuestras ciudades se consideren cunas del progreso y mecas de vida humana…/Our civic leaders must think about this,to discover the right recipe to turn our cities in progress cradles and human living meccas…

It's impossible to say what's "best" for everyone, of course. But where's the fun in not trying? Welcome to Businessweek.com’s second America’s Best Cities ranking. With assistance from Bloomberg Rankings, Businessweek.com evaluated 100 of the country’s largest cities based on leisure attributes (the number of restaurants, bars, libraries, museums, professional sports teams, and park acres by population); educational attributes (public school performance, the number of colleges, and graduate degree holders), economic factors (2011 income and June and July 2012 unemployment), crime, and air quality. Major professional league and minor league teams, as well as U.S.-based teams belonging to international leagues in that city were included. The greatest weighting was placed on leisure amenities, followed by educational metrics and economic metrics, and then crime and air quality. The data come from Onboard Informatics, except for park acreage, which comes from the Trust for Public Land. As the methodology has changed since the 2011 ranking, a city’s rise or fall compared with last year does not suggest that it has gotten “better” or “worse.”

1.- San Francisco
11.- Pittsburgh
21.- Cincinnati
31.- Oalkland
41.- Dallas
2.- Seattle
12.- Minneapolis
22.- Houston
32.- Rochester
42.- Reno
3.- Washington DC
13.- Nashville
23.- Oklahoma ity
33.- San Jose
43.- Scottsdale
4.- Boston
14.- New Orleans
24.- Philadelphia
34.- Lincoln
44.- Phoenix
5.- Portland, Oregon
15.- Kansas City
25.- Lexington
35.- Tampa
45.- Chesapeake
6.- Denver
16.- Atlanta
26.- Milwakee
36.- Colorado Springs
46.- Cleveland
7.- New York
17.- Madison
27.- Arlington
37.- Indianapolis
47.- St. Louis
8.- Austin
18.- Raleigh
28.- Chicago
38.- Tulsa
48.- Omaha
9.- San Diego
19.- Honolulu
29.- Baltimore
39.- Charlotte
49.- Anchorage
10.- St Paul
20.- Colombus
30.- San Antonio
40.- Virginia Beach
50.- Los Angeles


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