Brawn yields to brains

摘要

Happy cities, unlike happy families, do not all resemble one another, and Chicago has several happiness-inducing features that other cities would be pushed to emulate. Omaha and Indianapolis, for instance, can hardly pick themselves up and alight on the shores of an inland sea the size of Lake Michigan. Pittsburgh is not well placed to become a way-station port between the Atlantic and the Mississippi river. Louisville is not next-door to the richest topsoil in the world. In other words, Chicago owes much to its position.