United Kingdom, Newcastle
FC-01x Future Cities (Self-Paced) - Exercise 3: "Factors of Livability"
Uploaded on 2017-06-19 by Michael Brown
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. 1 Edinburgh 2 Glasgow 3 Paris 4 Seattle 5 Lagos 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. * Safety Cost of Living Ability to buy a home Ability to create wealth Ability to travel around 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 safety of residents could be increaced by increacing the number of policemen on the streets The cost of living could be decreased if taxes were reduced The ability to buy a home would be increased if more affordable housing was built and green belt restrictions were made more lax The ability to create wealth could be diversified by encouraging entrepreneurship Creating a metro system that came to the west end of the city would increace transport competition and options to a deptrived area of the city. Improved bike riding lanes and rentals would also increace this healthy option.