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THE END OF CIVILIZATION (AS WE KNOW IT) (p. 5 of 5)

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Public Order Index
Order is a subtle thing, a balance between over-regimentation and anarchy, measured in this case by the dynamic tension between the number of pedestrian jaywalkers and the traffic flow, as measured by the speed of a taxi trip. Civilized places were animated but not riotous, ebullient but not obnoxious, orderly but not too ordered.
Top 5
Rome Amsterdam Mexico Shanghai Paris

Life on the Street

European cities have the most lively streets; cities in the Far East the least.
Among our worst scores for the variety of stuff available on the street were China and Cuba.
North American cities finished neither in the top nor the bottom 5. (Maybe everybody’s at the mall?)
Weather’s not a factor: The top 5 cities include cold-weather Moscow and Berlin and sweltering Mumbai and Rome.
Hong Kong and Tokyo both scored in the top 5 of the Babe and Hunk Index but in the bottom 5 of the Street Life Indicator. So where do the beautiful people find each other?

Order! Order!

Top city Rome does organized chaos with flair.
In keeping with their reputation for polite orderliness, two Canadian cities (Toronto and Vancouver) scored in the bottom 5, indicating a low fun factor.
In Moscow, jaywalking is not only illegal, it’s impossible because of pedestrian underpasses.
Vancouver and Los Angeles both scored in the bottom 5… So much for West Coast liberalism.
The chaotic megacity of Mexico surprisingly rated below small but permissive Amsterdam. []

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