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Is Melbourne a liveable city?

Why? Why not?

What about other cities?

• In your groups, share any experiences you have about living in another city in Australia or elsewhere in the world.

• Was this other place more or less liveable than Melbourne? Why?

Liveability RankingsEconomist Intelligence Unit:

Liveability RankingsMonocle’s Liveability Survey 2013

Liveability RankingsMercer Quality of Living survey 2012

What about “un-liveable” cities?

EIU Ranking 2012

Why do you think these cities have scored so poorly?

What factors make a city “liveable”?

What the surveys look for:EIU:

•Financial focus: availability of goods & services, low risk, infrastructure…

NOT – climate or cost of living

Mercer:

•General wellbeing: safety, hygiene, education, health care, culture & the environment…

Monocle:

•Safety, public transport, tolerance, environment, urban design, medical care…

What might a liveable space look like?

Maybe like this….

http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/0904/livable-streets.html

Diamond Ranking

In pairs…

• Agree upon the nine factors which you think are the most important in determining how liveable your city is.

• If you think of a factor which is not listed, write it on a sticky-note.

• Arrange the factors in order of importance, using the diamond ranking tool.

When your pair is finished…

• You will be joined up with two other pairs.

• Look at how each pair has ranked their factors.

• Explain/justify to the group why you have chosen your arrangement.

• As a group, try to achieve consensus about the best way to rank the factors

Questions:

• Was there much disagreement about which were the most important factors, and how to rank them? (pairs, groups)

• Did you manage to resolve any disagreements (achieve consensus)? How did you do this? (pairs, groups)

• How might liveability be different for different people/different times?