City Guides 101 http://city.e-guides.org Your Window to the Top Cities of the World Sun, 20 May 2012 15:19:50 +0000 en hourly 1 Most Well-Read Cities: Virginia Cities Top’s List of Amazon’s Most Well-Read City in the US http://city.e-guides.org/most-well-read-cities-virginia-cities-tops-list-of-amazons-most-well-read-city-in-the-us/ http://city.e-guides.org/most-well-read-cities-virginia-cities-tops-list-of-amazons-most-well-read-city-in-the-us/#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 15:19:50 +0000 admin http://city.e-guides.org/most-well-read-cities-virginia-cities-tops-list-of-amazons-most-well-read-city-in-the-us/ Alexandria City, a small urban area in Virginia, was listed by Amazon.com as the most well-read city in the United States (US), according to reports by several international news sites on Wednesday, May 16, 2012. Amazon reportedly listed down 20 of the most well-read cities in the US for 2012 based on sales data on books, magazine and newspaper and eBooks since June 2011.

The Amazon list of the 20 most read cities include areas with populations of more than 100,000 residents.

According to Chris Schluep, senior editor of books at Amazon.com, “It’s great to see that we are truly a nation of readers, with representation on this list from every region of the country.”

Below is the complete 2012 Amazon.com list of the Top 20 well-read cities in the US.

  1. Alexandria, Va.
  2. Cambridge, Mass.
  3. Berkeley, Calif.
  4. Ann Arbor, Mich
  5. Boulder, Colo.
  6. Miami
  7. Arlington, Va.
  8. Gainesville, Fla.
  9. Washington, D.C.
  10. Salt Lake City
  11. Pittsburgh
  12. Knoxville, Tenn.
  13. Seattle
  14. Orlando, Fla.
  15. Columbia, S.C.
  16. Bellevue, Wash.
  17. Cincinnati
  18. St. Louis
  19. Atlanta
  20. Richmond, Va.

Reports say that Alexandria residents mostly read romantic books. Cambridge readers preferred Business and Investment books. Book readers in Boulder, Colorado were the most health conscious as they look for materials that pertains to Health, Fitness and Diet. Berkeley residents mostly ordered books related to travel.

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]]> http://city.e-guides.org/most-well-read-cities-virginia-cities-tops-list-of-amazons-most-well-read-city-in-the-us/feed/ 0 Amazon lists best-read cities http://city.e-guides.org/amazon-lists-best-read-cities/ http://city.e-guides.org/amazon-lists-best-read-cities/#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 15:19:50 +0000 admin http://city.e-guides.org/amazon-lists-best-read-cities/
Amazon rated cities across the U.S. based on how many books, magazines and newspapers their residents bought.

Do you live in any of the top 20 cities? What was the last book you read? Tell us in the comments or tweet your response to @CNNwriters.

(CNN) — Virginia is for lovers, so the slogan goes — but more specifically, it seems to be the state many book-lovers call home.

Amazon.com customers in Alexandria, Virginia, bought the most books, magazines and newspapers in the past year, making it the most well-read city in America on a per capita basis, according to rankings from the popular e-commerce website. Two other Virginia cities were in the top 20: Arlington ranked seventh and Richmond 20th.

Titles from the romance category were the most popular among Alexandrians, Amazon said in a statement announcing its second annual list of Most Well-Read Cities.

The second most well-read city with more than 100,000 residents was Cambridge, Massachusetts. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Amazon customers in the home of Harvard and MIT bought the most books in the business and investing category.

The list is full of university cities, like Berkeley, California, which came in third, with purchases of travel books at the top of customers’ lists. Other academic hubs that made the cut are Ann Arbor, Michigan (No. 4), Boulder, Colorado (No. 5), Gainesville, Florida (No. 8) and Columbia, South Carolina (No. 15).

The rankings were determined by compiling the number of books, magazines and newspapers bought by Amazon customers in both print and Kindle format since June 1, 2011, and dividing that number by the city’s population to determine the number of units sold on a per-capita basis, Amazon said. The formula explains why some of the nation’s largest cities, like New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, did not make the list, while cities that don’t normally appear on top-20 lists did.

“It’s great to see that we are truly a nation of readers, with representation on this list from every region of the country,” Chris Schluep, Amazon.com’s senior editor of books, said in a statement.

The complete list:

1. Alexandria, Virginia

2. Cambridge, Massachusetts

3. Berkeley, California

4. Ann Arbor, Michigan

5. Boulder, Colorado

6. Miami, Florida

7. Arlington, Virginia

8. Gainesville, Florida

9. Washington, D.C.

10. Salt Lake City, Utah

11. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

12. Knoxville, Tennessee

13. Seattle, Washington

14. Orlando, Florida

15. Columbia, South Carolina

16. Bellevue, Washington

17. Cincinnati, Ohio

18. St. Louis, Missouri

19. Atlanta, Georgia

20. Richmond, Virginia






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Every time Tom Walsh rides his bike in Appleton, he reaps the benefits.

“I found it to be a great way to get to and from work, good exercise, um, and very low-cost,” Walsh said.

And, it’s not just his health by riding his bicycle, Walsh is earning points for the city of Appleton in the national bike challenge.

The goal is to unite 50,000 people across the country to bike 10 million miles by the end of August.

Right now, Appleton is ranked fifth out of more than 600 cities.

The bike challenge is aimed to get more people riding their bike more often. If Appleton gets more cyclists, it has a chance at winning the contest.

Appleton is in the process of adding 30 miles of bike lanes to city streets.  Mayor Tim Hanna says if more people decide to ride their bikes, the city will become more bicycle-friendly.

“We want the bike lanes to lead to places of interest, have accommodations, so they can park their bikes,” Hanna said.

And, Walsh said he’d like to see more people join the national bike challenge to promote bicycling in the Fox Valley.

“Everybody seems to think Madison and Milwaukee, we want them to think Appleton. A lot of companies like to see that kind of lifestyle, see that people are healthy and active in a community before they locate there,” Walsh said.

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The cyclists who participated in Friday’s National Bike to Work Day likely planned their riding route with several criteria in mind, from convenience to safety. Those same concerns help determine how “bikeable” a town is, according to a new study by the Walk Score website. Among the factors: There’s safety in numbers.

“The more people who are out biking, the more cars get used to seeing bikes — and also, the more drivers of cars have had the experience of biking,” says Matt Lerner, co-founder of Walk Score.

As Lerner tells NPR’s Melissa Block, Walk Score recently assigned a Bike Score to U.S. cities based on four criteria: the number of bike lanes and hills; the nearness of destinations; and the number of bike commuters.

Minneapolis tops the Bike Score list, followed by Portland, Ore.; San Francisco; and Boston.

Asked why Minneapolis is rated so highly, Lerner cites the city’s trails — and its geography.

“I think it started in the age of glaciers, because the glaciers carved out these beautiful lakes,” he says. “And Minneapolis built trails connecting all of those lakes.”

Lerner says that despite its hilly geography, San Francisco tied with Portland on the strength of its extensive network of bike lanes.

New York made the Top 10 list primarily for its efforts to build new, and safer, bike lanes.

“For example, they have what are called parking-separated cycle tracks, where there’s a barrier of parked cars between the traffic and the bikers — and that’s a really great way to make bikers feel safer.”

There’s an easy way to tell if a town has succeeded in its approach to encouraging cyclists to ride, Lerner says.

“In bike research, they call older people and younger people ‘indicator species,’ ” he says. “So if you see an elderly person biking, or you see a child biking, that’s a good indicator that the city is doing a really good job with their bike infrastructure.”

The full list of the “most bikeable” cities:

  • Minneapolis
  • Portland
  • San Francisco
  • Boston
  • Madison
  • Washington, D.C.
  • Seattle
  • Tucson
  • New York City
  • Chicago

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Most well-read cities included Alexandria, Va., which came out ahead of Cambridge, Mass., and Berkeley, Calif., in the Amazon list. The top 5 most-well read cities also included Ann Arbor, Mich., and Boulder, Colorado.

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The city of Alexandria, Va. took the top spot in Amazon’s 2012 list of the most well-read cities in America.

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 New York and Boston may strike many as more intellectual but Alexandria, a small urban area in Virginia just outside Washington, D.C., is the most well-read city in the United States.

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Alexandria was one of three Virginia cities on the Amazon.com list of the 20 most well-read cities. It topped Cambridge, Massachusetts, the home of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Berkeley, California to take the top spot.

Ann Arbor in Michigan and Boulder, Colorado rounded out the top five, while Miami, Florida, which is better known for its balmy climate, enticing beaches and nightlife came in sixth.

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“It’s great to see that we are truly a nation of readers, with representation on this list from every region of the country,” Chris Schluep, senior editor of books for Amazon.com, said in a statement announcing the results.

The online retailer compiled the list of the 20 most read cities with populations of more than 100,000 residents using sales data on books, magazine and newspaper and eBooks since June last year.

Arlington and Richmond, both in Virginia, also made the ranking, along with Washington, D.C., which placed ninth on the list. Florida had two other bookish cities — Gainesville, which came in eighth and Orlando, which ranked 14th.

When Amazon took a closer look at the types of books people were reading it found that residents of Boulder were the most health conscious with an emphasis on health, fitness and diet books but people living in Berkeley ordered the most travel books.

Alexandria is a city of romantics and locals living in Cambridge were most interested in business and investing books.
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]]> http://city.e-guides.org/usps-releases-top-25-cities-for-dog-attacks-plus-tips-for-avoiding-dog-bites-document/feed/ 0 Radius Announces Top U.S. Cities With Most Social Media Savvy Small Businesses http://city.e-guides.org/radius-announces-top-u-s-cities-with-most-social-media-savvy-small-businesses/ http://city.e-guides.org/radius-announces-top-u-s-cities-with-most-social-media-savvy-small-businesses/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 15:15:55 +0000 admin http://city.e-guides.org/radius-announces-top-u-s-cities-with-most-social-media-savvy-small-businesses/ SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwire -05/17/12)-
Radius, the leading provider of sales intelligence on the small business market, today announced the results of their inaugural Radius Social Small Business Report. Topping the list of most social small business cities in the U.S. are San Francisco and Los Angeles, as West Coast cities overall ranked higher than their East Coast counterparts. New York ranked #7, while other major East Coast cities, such as Boston, did not make the top 20.

The results are the findings of the first annual Radius Social Small Business Report, which tracks SMBs in the top 85 U.S. cities and ranks them via the Radius Social Index, a score compromised of social media presence and daily deal activity. Radius’s technology collects and monitors information from more than 15 million SMBs in the U.S. and can measure social media presence by the number of SMBs with company websites, social media profiles on Facebook and Twitter, check-ins on Foursquare and Yelp reviews. It can also measure daily deal activity based on the number of SMBs that have issued a daily deal.

“This report shows how small business owners in large metropolitan areas are embracing social media,” said Darian Shirazi, Founder CEO of Radius. “With our data on small businesses, we can extract valuable insights that are not only a competitive advantage for SMBs and large enterprises, but also an economic asset for a variety of civic institutions.”

This study is the first of many reports on the small business economy based on the Radius platform. Radius’ innovative, cloud-based technology collects and monitors information from hundreds of thousands of sources via multiple channels including social, news and government sites. Radius provides the most accurate online and social data available on the SMB market. 

 
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City                     Radius Social Index Score (out of 10)
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San Francisco, CA        8.84
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Los Angeles, CA          7.61
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Washington, DC           7.31
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Seattle, WA              6.37
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San Diego, CA            6.28
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Chicago, IL              6.03
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New York, NY             5.67
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Dallas, TX               5.57
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Phoenix, AZ              5.52
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Tampa, FL                5.44
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Other notable findings from the Social Small Business Report include:

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  • Metropolitan cities that serve as home to major daily deal companies such as Living Social (Washington, DC – .5%) and Groupon (Chicago, IL – .4%) have the highest percentage of SMBs that have done at least one daily deal. However, both cities are less than 1 percent.

  • Buffalo, NY (20%) and Rochester, MN (20%) have the highest percentage of SMBs with Foursquare check-ins.

  • Charleston, WV ranked last amongst the top 85 U.S. social small business cities with a score of 1.8.

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Amazon rated cities across the U.S. based on how many books, magazines and newspapers their residents bought.

Do you live in any of the top 20 cities? What was the last book you read? Tell us in the comments or tweet your response to @CNNwriters.

(CNN) — Virginia is for lovers, so the slogan goes — but more specifically, it seems to be the state many book-lovers call home.

Amazon.com customers in Alexandria, Virginia, bought the most books, magazines and newspapers in the past year, making it the most well-read city in America on a per capita basis, according to rankings from the popular e-commerce website. Two other Virginia cities were in the top 20: Arlington ranked seventh and Richmond 20th.

Titles from the romance category were the most popular among Alexandrians, Amazon said in a statement announcing its second annual list of Most Well-Read Cities.

The second most well-read city with more than 100,000 residents was Cambridge, Massachusetts. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Amazon customers in the home of Harvard and MIT bought the most books in the business and investing category.

The list is full of university cities, like Berkeley, California, which came in third, with purchases of travel books at the top of customers’ lists. Other academic hubs that made the cut are Ann Arbor, Michigan (No. 4), Boulder, Colorado (No. 5), Gainesville, Florida (No. 8) and Columbia, South Carolina (No. 15).

The rankings were determined by compiling the number of books, magazines and newspapers bought by Amazon customers in both print and Kindle format since June 1, 2011, and dividing that number by the city’s population to determine the number of units sold on a per-capita basis, Amazon said. The formula explains why some of the nation’s largest cities, like New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, did not make the list, while cities that don’t normally appear on top-20 lists did.

“It’s great to see that we are truly a nation of readers, with representation on this list from every region of the country,” Chris Schluep, Amazon.com’s senior editor of books, said in a statement.

The complete list:

1. Alexandria, Virginia

2. Cambridge, Massachusetts

3. Berkeley, California

4. Ann Arbor, Michigan

5. Boulder, Colorado

6. Miami, Florida

7. Arlington, Virginia

8. Gainesville, Florida

9. Washington, D.C.

10. Salt Lake City, Utah

11. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

12. Knoxville, Tennessee

13. Seattle, Washington

14. Orlando, Florida

15. Columbia, South Carolina

16. Bellevue, Washington

17. Cincinnati, Ohio

18. St. Louis, Missouri

19. Atlanta, Georgia

20. Richmond, Virginia






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