Rating and Ranking Metro Areas in the United States and Canada for the Arts and Recreation
Year: 1997
Type: article
Abstract: This paper ranks 343 U.S. and Canadian metro areas by a composite index for the arts with nine factors and recreation with 11 factors using data published in Places Rated Almanac in 1993. The index methodology, as suggested by the Human Development Report, is utilized as a substitute for the simple addition of the separate rankings. Metro areas over 2 million population and in the mideast, far west, and New England were in the top of the scale for the arts. Areas with population range of 1.5 and 2 million and in the far west and Rocky Mountain regions were in the top of the scale for recreation.
DOI: 10.68479/001c.9097
Author: Edward Nissan
Institution: University of Southern Mississippi
Language: English
Subfield: Urban Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2274030361