Uploaded on 2016-07-28 by David

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. Newcastle London Edinburgh Leeds Glasgow 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: Cool temprature Quiet environment Sustainable food sources Equitable transportation network Economic symmetry 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. Newcastle Cool temprature: the natural temprature is cool but during summer centralised air conditioning systems could be used Quiet environment: Away from the city centre it is quiet, in the city centre reducing the amount of cars Sustainable food sources: Promote urban agriculture Equitable transportation network: use big data to analyse travel patterns and revise the system accordingly Economic symmetry: analyse poorer areas based on big data and evaluate how they may be better served by all forms of services