Mapping the Happiest Places in the United States (Disneyland Not Included)
Researchers from Harvard and the University of British Columbia used "self-reported life satisfaction data" from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to locate the cities and regions where Americans are most happy (or unhappy).
"There's more to take away from [the Unhappy Cities] study than a list of which cities are winners and which are losers," according to the analysis of Danielle Kurtzleben.
"The data also carries in it an insight into how people make major life choices. If people only sought to live in happy places, cities like Richmond and Charlottesville, Virginia would be swamped with people, while New York would be desolate. Clearly, that hasn't happened."
Kurtzleben also analyzes an additional layer of data reported by the study, namely the connection between income and levels of happiness.
Full Story:
Published on Thursday, July 24, 2014 in
Topics
- Is There a Perfect Density?
- Aurora Rising
- Six States Considered Laws to Make it Legal to Run Over Protestors This Year
- Friday Funny: Satirizing the War on Cars
- 100-Year-Old Law Explains Why There Are So Many Trucks on the Highway
- Imagine: A City Built for Cycling
- The Most Effective Way to Reduce Employee Driving
- $604 Million Makeover Coming to San Francisco's Market Street
- Five Big Ideas About the Future of Transportation and Land Use in Los Angeles
- The 'Steady Decline' of Suburban America
- Another Tool to Build Public Infrastructure in Post-Redevelopment California
- Lax Regulation of Texas Air Polluters
- Cooling L.A.
- One Way Washington Could Move Forward on Infrastructure
- Regional Plan Association Hits Reset on Hudson Crossing Crisis
- Capital Bikeshare Station MIA from the White House
- Car Crash Reporting Guidelines Prepare for Self-Driving Vehicles
- When Men Control the Debate About the Future of Cities
- Design Competition Yields a New Look for the Proposed Triboro Transit Line
- Testing New 'High Tech Security Screening' for Transit Users
