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The sensible place to build new houses, factories and offices is where people are, in cities and towns where infrastructure is in place.

新建住宅、工厂和办公楼的合理地点应该是有人居住的地方，即基础设施已经完备的城市和城镇。

So they compared U.S. cities’ average happiness 6 by Gallup polling with the investment activity of publicly traded firms in those areas.

因此他们将美国城市居民的平均幸福感6通过盖洛普民意调查与这些地区上市公司的投资活动进行比较。

But is it really happiness that’s linked to investment, or could something else about happier cities 9 why firms there spend more on R&D?

但真正与投资相关的是幸福，还是更幸福的城市中存在其他因素导致这些公司更愿意在研发上投入更多资金？

Cooper and her colleagues argue that the success of the crown for Hull, where it brought in £20m of investment and an avalanche of arts, ought not to be confined to cities.

库珀及其同事认为，胡尔获得这一称号的成功，带来了2000万英镑的投资和一场艺术热潮，不应仅限于大城市。

Among other weaknesses, the measures cities must employ when left to tackle dirty air on their own are politically contentious, and therefore vulnerable.

除了其他弱点外，当城市被迫独自应对空气污染时所采取的措施在政治上存在争议，因此容易受到攻击。