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Vancouver loses top spot on most liveable city list
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The Globe and Mail- For the first time in almost a decade, Vancouver has been edged out as the world's most liveable city, according to The Economist Intelligence Unit’s liveability survey.
The Australian city of Melbourne now takes the top spot, the survey found.
In the latest survey for July 2011, “a small adjustment in Vancouver’s score for transport infrastructure, reflecting recent intermittent closures of the key Malahat highway, resulted in a 0.7 percentage point decline in the Canadian city’s overall liveability rating,” The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) explained.
“The adjustment is miniscule, and should not be considered significant in the context of the overall score, but it was sufficient to drop Vancouver to third position behind Melbourne and Vienna.”
Noting that the June riots in Vancouver came too late in the year to affect its score on the current survey, the EIU cautioned that the city’s overall score could see further downward revisions as a result, and “further unrest may affect scores for the city in the future.”
As the EIU further explained, “The concept of liveability is simple: it assesses which locations around the world provide the best or the worst living conditions.”
In total, 140 cities were surveyed. The cities were evaluated across five broad categories: stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education and infrastructure.
The top ten cities were: (#1) Melbourne; (#2) Vienna; (#3) Vancouver; (#4) Toronto; (#5) Calgary; (#6) Sydney; (#7) Helsinki; (#8) Perth; (#9) Adelaide; and (#10) Auckland.
The bottom ten cities were: (#131) Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire; (#132) Tehran, Iran; (#133) Douala, Cameroon; (#134) Karachi, Pakistan; (#135) Tripoli, Libya; (#136) Algiers, Algeria; (#137) Lagos, Nigeria; (#138) Port Moresby, PNG; (#139) Dhaka, Bangladesh; and (#140) Harare, Zimbabwe.
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