The 10 Sunniest Places to Retire: American cities with long summers where you can spend your retirement.
What makes a well-planned city?
One of the things that the great cities of the world share is that there’s a legacy of wise decisions that have been made. If you look at Minneapolis and its Chain of Lakes—150 years or more ago, some very wise people said the land around these are always going to be forever public. And that is a singular accomplishment of Minneapolis. You look around most of the country and the world, you know, in the suburbs—the lakes are all privatized. They’re backyards. The areas of the country that are less successful are those that grew around the interstate highway and the sewer pipe, as opposed to the natural features that they began with.
And there are other cities where [they made] collective business decisions. Dallas fought hard to get the federal reserve. Getting that kind of banking center was incredibly important.
That’s another way in which planning today is essential: it helps sort out among the many decisions that could be made within a community those that are going to be mutually reinforcing and often the ones that give you the best chance of greater success.
The 11 Most Dangerous U.S. Cities: These are the 11 U.S. cities with the highest crime rates from 2003 through 2009, according to an analysis of FBI violent and property crime reporting data by Onboard Informatics. Each city in this slide show has a crime risk index score based on that data. A score of 100 would mean that a city’s crime risk is equal to the national average. All of the 11 cities on this list have crime risk index scores of 331 or higher.
