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Finally, a Single Data Point for Measuring Your City’s Quality of Place

July 13, 2015 by John Karras 7 Comments

Finally, a Single Data Point for Measuring Your City’s Quality of Place

This blog post is for all of the data geeks. And for anyone who's ever wished for a single piece of data that accurately reflects a city's quality of place. There is one data point that does a better job of gauging the quality of place in any given city than anything I’ve come across. Want to know what it is? I'll tell you. But first, let me tell you the story of how I came to this realization. (If you simply can’t wait, you can skip down to find the answer highlighted in bold. But if you can … [Read more...]

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