Oh, Forbes!
by Cosmo
16 April 2007
Here’s a nice bit of work from Forbes’s World’s Cleanest Cities list. Though I’m at a loss as to how the barely-mentioned criteria yielded the cities they did (#2 Honolulu has severe traffic congestion issues, while #10 Boston has failed to implement a number of environmental remediations from the Big Dig), my real complaint was in how the web page presented its results.
It’s great that the person writing text for #6 Oslo knew that city was the capital of Norway. Many Americans are probably unaware of this fact. But it would have been a nice gesture if this person had let whoever wrote the blurb title in on the secret. And while I’m sure the City of Vancouver was tickled pink to mentioned twice, perhaps erasing the City of Boston’s entry wasn’t the best way to do it.
