A Message from the Gold Guide's Executive Editors:
Thank you for your interest in America's Best Cities & States: The Annual Gold Guide to Leading Rankings. Popularly referred to as the Gold Guide, this one-of-a-kind publication is the definitive source for city and state rankings. No publication in the country offers as much objective data, distilled research and expert insight. None puts so much information at your fingertips, sparing you countless hours of work.
Each year, literally hundreds of city and state rankings are published. The Gold Guide is the only publication to track, analyze and compile them into an up-to-date, easy-to-understand format, so that you and others can learn how America's communities are doing -- and how to make them better.
To help you penetrate this mountain of data and explain the real story behind the rankings, the Gold Guide offers a number of powerful features. In order to provide genuine insight into the keys to community success, researchers interviewed over 150 governors, mayors, CEOs and other prominent figures from top-ranked cities and states and published their exclusive "Insight Statements" inside. In-depth "Ranking Summaries" explain each ranking and how it was created. And "Performance Profiles" offer comprehensive evaluations of the strengths and weaknesses of America's cities and states.
To present this information in an accessible format, the guide contains cutting-edge graphics, extensive cross-referencing and an exhaustive directory of source organizations.
The Gold Guide is a powerful tool for everyone: state and local policymakers, business leaders, think tanks and research centers, site selection consultants and corporate real estate executives, developers and municipal leagues, civic groups and chambers of commerce, and many others.
We invite you to learn more about the Gold Guide. Click here to view the interactive page.
