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America's Top-Rated Cities
2008 Edition

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Pub. Date: April 2008
Softcover: 2,000 pages, Four Volume Set
ISBN: 1-59237-349-6/978-1-59237-349-9
Price: $195.00
Softcover: Volume 1: Southern Region
ISBN: 1-59237-350-X/978-1-59237-350-5
Price: $59.95
Softcover: Volume 2: Western Region
ISBN: 1-59237-351-8/978-1-59237-351-2
Price: $59.95
Softcover: Volume 3: Central Region
ISBN: 1-59237-352-6/978-1-59237-352-9 Price: $59.95
Softcover: Volume 4: Eastern Region
ISBN: 1-59237-353-4/978-1-59237-353-6 Price: $59.95

America's Top-Rated Cities: A Statistical Handbook provides current, comprehensive statistical information in one easy-to-use source on 100 top-rated U.S. cities. Conveniently arranged by city, this Four Volume Set allows readers to see, at a glance, a concise social, business, economic, demographic and environmental profile of each city, including brief evaluative comments. Comparisons with MSA and US figures are shown in most tables. A special section with comparative statistics is also included.

This 2008 edition includes sixteen new cities (Augusta, GA, Jackson, MS, Tallahassee, FL, Oakland, CA, Oxnard, CA, Riverside, CA, Santa Ana, CA, Santa Rosa, CA, Spokane, WA, Evansville, IN, Little Rock, AR, South Bend, IN, Warren, MI, Allentown, PA, Dayton, OH and Toledo, OH) and has been extensively updated to make sure that the hundreds of charts, tables and ranking data has the most current information available.

There are four volumes in each set, each covering a specific region of the United States: South, West, Central, and East. Each volume can be purchased separately or as a set.

Volume 1: Southern Edition
Athens, GA
Atlanta, GA
Augusta, GA - NEW
Austin, TX
Birmingham, AL
Charleston, SC
Chattanooga, TN
Columbia, SC
Dallas, TX
El Paso, TX
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Fort Worth, TX
Houston, TX
Huntsville, AL
Jackson, MS - NEW
Jacksonville, FL
Knoxville, TN
Miami, FL
Nashville, TN
Orlando, FL
Saint Petersburg, FL
San Antonio, TX
Savannah, GA
Tallahassee, FL - NEW
Tampa, FL

Volume 2: Western Region
Albuquerque, NM
Anchorage, AK
Boise City, ID
Boulder, CO
Colorado Springs, CO
Denver, CO
Eugene, OR
Fort Collins, CO
Honolulu, HI
Las Vegas, NV
Los Angeles, CA
Oakland, CA - NEW
Oxnard, CA – NEW
Phoenix, AZ
Portland, OR
Provo, UT
Reno, NV
Riverside, CA - NEW
Sacramento, CA
Salt Lake City, UT
San Diego, CA
San Francisco, CA
San Jose, CA
Santa Ana, CA – NEW
Santa Rosa, CA - NEW
Seattle, WA
Spokane, WA - NEW
Tucson, AZ

Volume 3: Central Region
Ann Arbor, MI
Cedar Rapids, IA
Chicago, IL
Des Moines, IA
Evansville, IN - NEW
Fort Wayne, IN
Green Bay, WI
Indianapolis, IN
Kansas City, MO
Lincoln, NE
Little Rock, AR - NEW
Madison, WI
Milwaukee, WI
Minneapolis, MN
Oklahoma City, OK
Omaha, NE
Saint Louis, MO
Saint Paul, MN
Springfield, MO
South Bend, IN – NEW
Tulsa, OK
Warren, MI - NEW
Wichita, KS

Volume 4: Eastern Region
Allentown, PA - NEW
Baltimore, MD
Boston, MA
Charlotte, NC
Cincinnati, OH
Cleveland, OH
Columbus, OH
Dayton, OH - NEW
Durham, NC
Edison, NJ
Greensboro, NC
Lexington, KY
Louisville, KY
Manchester, NH
New York, NY
Philadelphia, PA
Pittsburgh, PA
Providence, RI
Raleigh, NC
Richmond, VA
Rochester, NY
Toledo, OH - NEW
Virginia Beach, VA
Washington, DC

This outstanding source of information will be widely used in any reference collection.

Order Individual City Reports

Pub. Date: April 2008
Softcover: 2,000 pages, Four Volume Set
ISBN: 1-59237-349-6/978-1-59237-349-9
Price: $195.00
Softcover: Volume 1: Southern Region
ISBN: 1-59237-350-X/978-1-59237-350-5
Price: $59.95
Softcover: Volume 2: Western Region
ISBN: 1-59237-351-8/978-1-59237-351-2
Price: $59.95
Softcover: Volume 3: Central Region
ISBN: 1-59237-352-6/978-1-59237-352-9 Price: $59.95
Softcover: Volume 4: Eastern Region
ISBN: 1-59237-353-4/978-1-59237-353-6 Price: $59.95

Note: If you find this work does not fit your budget, please print out this page and bring it to your local library. There is a reasonable chance they either have a copy, can direct you to a library that does, or will be willing to purchase it for their reference collection.