There’s no shortage of lists and rankings of “best places” out there: the best cities for millennials, the best neighborhoods to raise kids, the best places to retire, the world’s most livable cities, and on and on. Since CityLab is a publication devoted to cities and urbanism—one that is written by and for people you could call urbanists—I thought it would be fun to develop a metric for the best places for urbanists.
The first thing I did was use U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data to identify “urbanist” occupations. Here’s the initial list that jumped out:
