San Jose, Calif.; Provo, Utah; and Seattle top a new list of America’s 100 most populous cities ranked by their performance across ambitious United Nations standards. Detroit, Cleveland, and Baton Rouge, La., take up the bottom three spots.
The study applies recently developed UN global well-being goals to U.S. metropolitan areas. Conducted by the UN-affiliated Sustainable Development Solutions Network, the research is a methodical attempt to bring an arcane multilateral initiative into a perpetually resistant American civic discourse.
