Uploaded on 2017-06-12 by Renny I John

Step 1: List the five most liveable cities that you know, based on your own experience and judgment, placing the most liveable city at the top of the list The most livable cities based on my experience and based on my visits across cities is as follows: 1)Ljubljana, Slovenia 2)Singapore 3)Seoul, South Korea 4)Columbus, Ohio 5)Kochi, India Step 2: Describe in your own words five characteristics that according to your opinion make a city liveable. Order them placing the most important at the top of the list. The top five characteristics are: 1)Traffic - This includes public transportation options available and also the traffic bottlenecks 2)Pollution - Refers to the air and noise pollution levels 3)Water - Easy availability of clean drinking water 4)Education - Availability of high quality school and college education at normal affordable rates 5)Public Safety - Citizens can feel safe in the streets Step 3: Describe the status of your own city in terms of the five characteristics that you listed above. Propose how your city should/could be transformed in relation to these characteristics in order to be more sustainable. The city where I presently live is Bengaluru, India. In terms of the five characteristics here is my raking of Bengaluru 1) Traffic - Very poor, the city is stranded with long traffic snarls leading to hours wasted in idle traffic and frustration to cities. Steps to improve will include speeding up the metro rail network across the city, enforcing strict traffic rules, using more technology to manage traffic 2) Pollution - Air pollution is high and noise pollution is definitely an issue. Air pollution can be substantially improved with more effective clean public transportation and also better waste management 3)Water - Access to clean drinking water is becoming an issue, with the rapid growth of city and mushrooming population. Strict enforcement and control to ensure the lakes within the city are not dumped with industrial and construction waste and lakes are not converted to land. 4)Education - The city has many good and high quality educational options, however the issue is the rising cost of education. More governmental intervention to control the escalation education costs. 5)Public Safety - Public safety has certainly improved and the police force is using technology to ensure the same.