Bagels vs. traffic jam.

• Author: Florida, Richard
• Position: LETTERS - Letter to the editor

Doron Taussig's review of my book Who's Your City? chastises me for not helping him figure out whether the "satisfaction of feeling at home in a bagel store outweighs a 50 percent drop in commuting time." What the book says is that I cannot tell him or anyone else that. We all want different things from our cities, just as we all want different things from our careers and our life partners. I wrote the book to help people make the choice of where...