Uploaded on 2017-02-01 by Jako Roux
1. Which are your top livability criteria? Environment Economy Safety Infrastructure Education 2. Why do we live where we live? Melbourne, Australia Safe and vibrant environment (multicultural, recreation, green spaces, moderate climate), with stable growing economy, 1st world infrastructure and world class education options. 3. To what extend does your own place of residence fulfill your ideal livability criteria? On a scale from 1-100 rate to what extend your place of residence fulfills your ideal livability criteria (i.e. the top-5 criteria you selected in Question 1). 85 Provide also a general livability score for your city, using the same scale (1-100). 85 4. What would you change? Imagine that you were the mayor of your place of residence. Which would be the first measure you would take to improve livability? Improve transportation infrastructure. Although Melbourne is not the biggest city in the world, current transportation infrastructure is struggling under the rapid growth (Melbourne has the highest influx of people of all cities in Australia) 5. Why do we move? In this last part of the exercise, we want you to name three places that you would select to move in case you decided to change a place of residence. In addition, provide us with 5 qualities of these places that played an important role during your decision process. Order them with the most important at the top of your list. Vancouver, Singapore, Paris 1. Environment, 2. Economy, 3. Safety, 4. Infrastructure, 5. Education