I never read those glossy magazine inserts in The Age (who does?) but on Friday I made an exception for The Melbourne Magazine because it promised to tell me “the most liveable suburb in the world’s most liveable city”. The Age’s Our liveable city project ranks the “liveability” of 314 suburbs from top to bottom [...]
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How liveable are our major cities?
Adelaide is the most liveable capital city in Australia and Sydney is the least, according to a study released earlier this month by the Property Council of Australia. The Australian reports that Sydney might have the harbour, Opera House and Bondi, but most Sydneysiders live a long way from these attractions in less salubrious places [...]
READ MOREWhat's VECCI's vision for Melbourne?
The Victorian Employer’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VECCI) released five policy papers on Monday aimed at guiding the pre-election decision-making of the major parties. The paper on Infrastructure and Liveability is of particular interest to the Melbourne Urbanist. Apart from a short introduction emphasising the economic importance of infrastructure, it’s essentially a list of [...]
READ MORECan we make living together better?
OK so now it’s time to turn to State politics. I have a modest idea for making our major cities more liveable that I’d like to offer to the Premiers and Opposition Leaders of Victoria, NSW and Queensland in the run up to their forthcoming State elections. The idea could be named something like the [...]
READ MOREWhere are the special places in Melbourne?
Melbourne has a number of special places that distinguish it from other cities
READ MORESydney or Melbourne – which is more liveable (part 2)?
I noted on Friday that the 2010 Mercer annual quality of living survey says Sydney is more liveable than Melbourne. However neither of these surveys define what liveability is from the point of view of the residents of a city, begging the question: what makes one city more liveable than another? And in particular, which [...]
READ MOREIs Sydney really more liveable than Melbourne (part 1)?
On Wednesday the Sydney Morning Herald reported the release of the 2010 Mercer annual quality of living survey with the headline, “Sydney beats Melbourne in world’s top cities league”. This is not news. Sydney beat Melbourne in the 2009 Mercer survey too. Sydney has stayed in 10th position and Melbourne has “slipped” from 17th to [...]
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