Your City

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Author(s): Edward L. Thorndike
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & Co.
Year: 1939

Language: English
Pages: 203
Tags: economics, sociology, public health, crime, quality of life, factor analysis, socioeconomic status, US Census, statistics, urban development, poverty, human development index, development indices, developing world

I. Differences between cities
II. Differences between cities in the general goodness of life for good people
III. The interrelations among various features of a city
IV. What makes a city good? The influence of wealth, income, and personnel
V. What makes a city good? (continued)
VI. Birth rate and size of family
VII. The cost of living
VIII. Special groups of cities
IX. Errors in opinions about cities
X. Measure your city
XI. Improve your city
- Appendix
I. Data and sources
II. The indices of the general goodness of life for good people
III. The index, I, of per capita private income
IV. The index, P, of certain desirable personal qualities in a population
V. Explanations of technical terms and symbols
- List of Tables
- Index