You’d be hard pressed to find two Western cities that are more different than Houston and Copenhagen. The former has a reputation for being a business-focused place where everything is big. Buoyed by an economy that has thrived in recent years as the oil industry boomed, residents drive in big cars on big roads to big houses in one of the country’s biggest cities. The latter has a reputation for being “happy,” with residents who…
What Copenhagen and Houston tell us about how “trust” affects cities
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