Has the U.S. Passed Peak Car?
Over at Economix, Catherine Rampell points to this map from MapScroll which recreates the
UN Human Development Index for U.S.
The pattern is more or less what you would think. Rampell notes that:
Connecticut, which has the highest development of all American states, is roughly comparable with Ireland (the fifth most-developed country worldwide). But Mississippi has an H.D.I. level roughly on par with that of Turkey (#76 in the international development rankings).
Richard Florida is Senior Editor at The Atlantic and Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto. See his most recent writing at The Atlantic Cities. More
Florida is author of The Rise of the Creative Class, Who's Your City?, and The Great Reset. He is founder of the Creative Class Group.
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