A Human Development Index for U.S. Cities: Methodological Issues and Preliminary Findings
借鉴联合国人类发展指数方法，调整后用于比较美国25个城市的人类发展水平，给出各城市发展快照，为城市政策制定提供有限基准。
This paper builds upon the work of the United Nations Development Program in expanding the use of the Human Development Index (HDI). This index, originally created to compare human development among countries, has been modified to allow comparisons among cities in the United States. This paper discusses the methodology used to develop the cross‐city HDI, as well as the results for the twenty‐five cities chosen for this study. The results offer an intriguing “snapshot” of human development in each city, as well as an encouraging, although limited, benchmark for policy making in cities.