TABLE2 Changes in EIU city liveability ratings from 2019 to 2024 City 2019 ranking
2021 ranking
2024 ranking
Vienna
1 2 3
12
1 4 7
Melbourne Sydney Adelaide Auckland
8
11
10 12 14
3 1 6
11 10 15
Perth
10.4.3 What do these top 10 liveable cities have in common? Four of the most liveable cities are located in Europe, followed by Australia and Canada with two apiece, then Japan and New Zealand. They are all mid-sized cities, with a low population density , lowcrime rates and mild weather. They are planned cities with good infrastructure and transport links. They are modern places, not more than 300 years old and found in some of the world’s wealthiest nations. Cities in the United States do not feature in the top rankings due to their higher crime and congestion rates. The highest ranked city is Honolulu at 23. TABLE3 provides an insight into the various ratings.
TABLE3 Decoding the ratings Rating
Description
80–100
There are few, if any, challenges to living standards
70–80 60–70 50–60
Day-to-day living is ýne, in general, but some aspects of life may entail problems
Negative factors have an impact on day-to-day living Liveability is substantially constrained Most aspects of living are severely restricted
50or less
10.4 SkillBuilder activity GEOGRAPHICAL INQUIRY 1. Use a spreadsheet to collect data on the top and bottom 10 cities from FIGURE1 . Focus on: • population • population density • number of universities • number of hospitals • literacy rates • recent violence, civil unrest and crime rates • trafýc issues • public transport • infrastructure • water/sanitation. 2. Create graphs to show your data, following geographic conventions and citing data sources. 3. Interpret your graphs. Discuss the differences between the most and least liveable cities, citing speciýc places and datasets.
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