Creative Class » literate cities http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class The source on how we live, work and play Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:54:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 America’s Most Literate Cities http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class/2008/12/24/americas-most-literate-cities/ http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class/2008/12/24/americas-most-literate-cities/#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:07:01 +0000 Richard Florida http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class/?p=6397

1. Minneapolis and Seattle (tie)

3. Washington, D.C.

4. St. Paul

5. San Francisco

6. Atlanta

7. Denver

8. Boston

9. St. Louis

10. Cincinnati and Portland, Ore. (tie)

The ranking is based on six key indicators: newspaper circulation, number of bookstores, library resources, periodical publishing resources, educational attainment, and Internet resources for cities with populations of 250,000 or greater. (via USA Today). My eyeball analysis suggests this ranking is reasonably though not entirely correlated with levels of human capital and the creative class.

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