Outside Magazine story: "8 Habits of Highly Successful Cities" | August 2018

Lately in my evaluative framework for libraries, I've realized that I haven't systematically evaluated the presentation of periodicals, especially specialty publications.

I have noticed, looking back, that in DC at least, libraries in more impoverished areas have fewer periodicals than in higher income neighborhoods.  But generally, the number of specialty publications, even as "esoteric" as the New York Review of Books, is quite limited.  Journals are practically non-existent.

But I happened to be at the Mount Pleasant Branch over the weekend, and I was looking at the periodicals (not to evaluate) and came across this article, "8 Habits of Highly Successful Cities," in the current issue of Outside Magazine.

The list is a bit idiosyncratic, but according to the article, those eight habits are:

#1. Waterfront renewal

#2. Reboot Urban Renewal

#3. Exploit Natural Resources

#4. Invest in Outdoor Recreation (of course, you'd expect that from a magazine dedicated to outdoor adventure)

#5. Support of Craft Breweries (think of this more broadly as support for innovative food and beverage concepts)

#6. Cool suburban sprawl (hmm, think of this more broadly as support for innovation in conurbations across a metropolitan area)

#7. A cluster of technology firms

#8. A commitment to sustainability.

It's best to track down and read the article, because the online piece pretty much just lists the main points with limited text.  This is a scan of one of the pages.  It turns out the scanning function at the Mt.P library branch isn't so great.