A Planner's Guide to the Places Rated Almanac

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Place-rating schemes have caught the attention of both the public and professionals concerned with the welfare of specific geographic areas. The most popular is Boyer and Savageau's Places Rated Almanac. In this article we describe that publication and evaluate its usefulness as a guide to potential migrants and as a tool for reliably comparing places. We conclude that while the information in Places Rated may be of some use to footloose migrants, the volume contains some basic conceptual and measurement problems and therefore is of little use to planners who are attempting to evaluate and understand localities' quality of life. We surveyed 32 planning directors; their responses indicate that although Places Rated is widely known, it has not had a substantive impact on local policy or planning.

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