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	How can you tell if a city is truly civilized? In this running series in enRoute, we apply five unique indicators to city pairings from across the globe to determine which is the most civilized. 1. Soft Drink / Beer Ratio 2. Signature Carbohydrate Comparison 3. Babe / Hunk Index 4. Street Life Indicator 5. Public Order Index For years civic leaders went in for opera houses and other grand edifices, figuring if they had one, they had to be civilized. Alas, once everywhere from Brazilian jungle clearings to cold Canadian lakeshore towns had its own monument to artistic caterwauling, the idea lost much of its cachet. In the 1960s urban thinkers lead by Jane Jacobs decided that civilization was to be found not in buildings but in the streets, in the bustling curbside dance of humanity. Inspired by this idea, urbanist William Whyte began documenting and measuring that human ballet, even developing numerical measures for street life such as the Gibbon factor. (If pedestrians on downtown streets ever number less than 1,000 per hour, the city is doomed to decline and fall.) That was in the 1970s, a bad time for North American cities in particular. Three decades later the question is not which cities will fall but which will reach the apex of human achievement. In this running series in enRoute, we apply five unique indicators to city pairings from across the globe to determine which is the most civilized.		Civilization Index Finale St. Petersburg vs Havana Rome vs Buenos Aires Washington vs Moscow Mexico vs Tokyo London vs Mumbai Chicago vs Berlin San Francisco vs Shanghai Toronto vs Zurich Hong Kong vs Vancouver Montreal vs Amsterdam New York vs Paris Los Angeles vs Rio de Janeiro STANDINGS

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