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IN FACT, I remember preordering one a few years back...and it just mysteriously never came to fruition.
Even e-mailed ol' Bert a few times. nada.
I sent an email through the Speling website a year or two ago asking the same question. I also didn't get a response. There was no useful info on the publisher's website either. Around 2011 or so, I figured they were just collecting and aggregating the 2010 Census data which would take a while. Now, I suspect that the series is over.
Maybe, the last edition sold badly? It did come out right before the economy crashed and seriously impaired household mobility for a lot of people.
Why is that sad? I asked a question.... made a guess. And for the record I was not meaning the forum side of this site. I spent months on the "data" side researching many cities before I ever even came over here. People go to the internet for information these days, not wait for an annual book to come out. I don't know anything about the books you are referring to, but I do know that I use the internet to do my research as much as possible, and I think most people these days do the same. Therefore, it makes sense to me that many books that were once popular eventually found it no longer profitable to continue publishing them.
And yes, I am aware that this website is outdated. Which is why I do further research to attempt to verify the current status of things. We use what we have available to us to the best of our abilities.
I sent an email through the Speling website a year or two ago asking the same question. I also didn't get a response. There was no useful info on the publisher's website either. Around 2011 or so, I figured they were just collecting and aggregating the 2010 Census data which would take a while. Now, I suspect that the series is over.
Maybe, the last edition sold badly? It did come out right before the economy crashed and seriously impaired household mobility for a lot of people.
That's exactly what I was thinking, too.
What a shame. Oh well, I'll have to dig up the stats myself
in those 'America's Top Rated Cities' reference books.
Perhaps it's just my opinion and yes one can sway the criteria anyway one might like. To suggest however through overall popular opinion that Pittsburgh (or Philadelphia) would emerge in the Top 5 most livable cities list is at best ridiculous. Call it smug or snarky, but it's also fact.
Did it rate the cities only or overall regions? That would make a huge difference.
Seattle and Pittsburgh would be on top and San Diego would be right behind them.
Yeah, I thought that was curious how Pittsburgh always does so well on that. It's such a rust belt city and been using population for so long but it still gets high marks in places rated.
I think Bert Sperling made so much cash from those he retired. Why bust your hump making a huge book about cities when you can party at the Playboy Mansion
Yeah, I thought that was curious how Pittsburgh always does so well on that. It's such a rust belt city and been using population for so long but it still gets high marks in places rated.
Doesn't really matter, this book isn't ONE list of cities. Top down.
And, if fact, I'm not aware of anyone, anywhere, that would use it as such ....esp when THOSE lists are online, around every corner. No, the books are a pertinent collection of dozens upon dozens of lists, all spelled out and explained and quantified with links to the raw data.. The best of the US Census, without having to actually dig through a mind numbing amount of US Census raw data.
That is, and always has been, the point of these books.
And, does it even need to be said? Apparently so, take everything with a grain of salt.
Flawed info (that you can use to further your search) is better than no info at all.
And better than so much data it's impossible to access and make sense of an of it.
They present the data for you, then filter it through *their* weighted algorithm.
You're free to only select the data you find pertinent and do your own weighing.
As far as the playboy mansion: why hasn't new blood stepped up to take over then?
There was always David Savageau.
And many more...
It still makes no sense to me.
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