"Livable cities" generally refers to places where people can comfortably live, work, and enjoy their lives. These cities have good-quality housing, access to essential services like healthcare and education, clean and safe environments, efficient transportation systems, and plenty of recreational opportunities. In simple terms,
livable cities are pleasant and convenient places to reside in.
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Then take a gander at this interactive utopia, which lets you mouse over various structures and visual cues to see just what the
most livable city in Canada might look like.
Then take a gander at this interactive utopia, which lets you mouse over various structures and visual cues to see just what the most
livable city in Canada might look like.
The Australian city of Melbourne has taken first place for the world's most
livable city for the seventh year in a row as part of The Economist... Read More
Considered the No. 1 most
livable city on Earth this year, Melbourne earned an overall score of 97.5, with perfect 100s in three categories: education, infrastructure, and healthcare.
The money will support President Obama's vision to
create livable cities and improve passenger rail service.
Canada trains lots of highly skilled workers and it boasts the sorts
of livable cities in which those highly skilled people like to live.
Melbourne was recently named the world's most
livable city with one of the most livable lodgings being this popular, 25 - story 388 - room riverside hotel....
«Practical Ideas For People In Cities» Launched in May 2010, the Philips
Livable Cities Award seeks to «generate practical, achievable ideas for improving the health and well - being of people living in cities.»
Named the most
livable city by the Places Rated Almanac in 2006, Rochester is often highly ranked for quality of life.
City Heights is ranked [10] a
very livable city, with lots of local amenities, stable housing market and sunny weather.
Find out why Vancouver was chosen as the world's
best livable city located between the mountains and the Ocean.
Damascus, Syria was ranked the
least livable city in the world, preceded by Dhaka, Bangladesh, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Lagos, Nigeria and Karachi, Pakistan.
More on Walkability and Livable Communities New Study Shows Walkable Communities Make People Happier Parking Lots to Parks:
Designing Livable Cities The Top 10 Least Walkable US Cities
The 10 least
livable cities include Kiev in Ukraine, Tripoli in Libya and Damascus in Syria, which ranked 140th, had an overall rating of 30.2.
Ann Arbor regularly makes top lists of
livable cities across the US, so it would be crazy of us to leave it out of the top college towns.
Melbourne has been voted the world's most
livable city at least six times and is known for its buzzing trendy cafés and multicultural cuisine.
In the last few years Cairns has become a more
sophisticated livable city with brand new infrastructure to attract visitors from all over the world and provide a relaxing place for tourists and Cairns locals to enjoy all the tours and natural attractions of Cairns and the surrounding region.
The Economist calls Vienna the
second-most livable city in the world, but despite the recognition, not a single U.S. - based airline flies there.
Our friend Clarence went to Zurich and shot this great, truly - worth - watching film that is bound to inspire urban planners everywhere to get it together and start designing
truly livable cities (hopefully).
She proposed a variation on this idea for Yemen's cities in her winning entry for the
Phillips Livable Cities Award:
Then again, from the transformation of Curitiba to a world -
class livable city, through New York's renaissance as a bike, walk and bus friendly place to be, to a dramatic reversal of Amazon deforestation, there are plenty of success stories — many of which would never have seen the light of day if it hadn't been for visionaries and dreamers.
Perhaps our infrastructure investments should not be in highways... From Vuchic's Transportation for
Livable Cities via:: Frumination via:: Kottke
We are fleeing from a culture that thinks a great aspiration is to have the market decide what
makes livable cities — as if the market can ever have social vision.
Like our Helsingborg experience, Eriksberg illustrates that the way to develop attractive,
livable cities does not have to be complex.
Eugene is full of quaint coffee shops and natural food stores surrounded by the Cascade Mountains and the Oregon coast making it one of the most
livable cities around.
The city is known as the City of Destiny and is also considered one of America's Most
Livable Cities due to its big city features and small town allure.
There must be a reason why it is voted the most
livable city on earth a couple times in the last 6 years
She is a writer, editor and foodie who is passionate about improving food systems, closing loops and creating
more livable cities.
«We are moving urgently to help countries make major transitions to increase sources of renewable energy, decrease high - carbon energy sources, develop green transport systems and build sustainable,
livable cities for growing urban populations.
Named the most
livable city by the Places Rated Almanac in 2006, Rochester is often highly ranked for quality of life.
This volunteer project is situated in Vancouver, one of the worlds
best livable city!
Clean Air Asia is an international non-governmental organization that catalyzes action for clean air and
livable cities in Asia.
Today, Birmingham has transformed itself into a medical research, banking and service - based economy, making it one of the nation's most
livable cities with a vibrant downtown, a burgeoning loft community, a world - class culinary scene and more green space per capita than any other city in the nation.
• A sponsored feature on street lighting (25 December 2010, p 11) asked for entries to a «
Livable Cities Award», a competition that, as the article said, had closed on 28 October 2010.
The outfit submits that sprawling Dallas - Fort Worth is a more
livable city than Toronto because Dallas's inhabitants tend to have shorter commutes to work.
George Town was named the most
livable city in Malaysia and the eighth most livable city in Asia by global consulting firm ECA International.
According to the Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) Global Liveability Ranking, which scores 140 cities on five lifestyle categories, six of the top 10
livable cities in the world are in Australia and Canada.
Today, 15 leading transport and tech companies have pledged to abide by her 10 «shared mobility principles for
livable cities» — including competitors Uber, Lyft, and Beijing - based Didi Chuxing.
According to the EIU's Global Liveability Ranking, six of the top 10
livable cities in the world are in Australia and Canada.
It's taxes collected by governments that provide us with the wide array of social services and infrastructure, such as schools, medical services, libraries and parks, safe streets and
livable cities.
It is a global centre for business, finance, arts and culture, and is consistently ranked one of the world's most
livable cities.