Uploaded on 2016-08-11 by Poliana de Souza Borges

1. Which are your top livability criteria? Top 5 criteria for livability: infrastructure housing safety health care education 2. Why do we live where we live? I live in a city in metropolitan east area of Rio de Janeiro State that calls São Gonçalo. I lived here for 10 years and nowadays I am a architect in prefecture here too. Therefore these are the 5 reasons to live here: My work is very near where I live, I go to work on foot; is cheaper to rent a imovel here; I have all services near where I live (malls, supermarkets, drugstores, restaurants, stores, etc); Although in Rio de Janeiro the safety situation is difficult, here I don’t have problems with this; I have total infrastructure in my street (garbage collection, water supply, sewerage system, etc). 3. To what extend does your own place of residence fulfill your ideal livability criteria? São Gonçalo is a city with a high population index and doesn’t have proper infrastructure. The Population suffer with a lack of an urban project that adds the city’s identity. Nevertheless, I live in downtown and here we have best conditions. Considering a neighborhood scale and according of my experience like a dweller and a member of the public administration, I would provide following scores: i) infrastructure - 75 h) housing - 80 n) safety - 60 g) health care - 30 d) education - 40 For São Gonçalo I would provide 55. 4. What would you change? Infrastructure is a criteria that should be in top of livability issues. This tema includes many of other temas and influences many factors. We can’t talk about health care without to think about sewage treatment and water supply for example, or talk about education without power supply and paving. In São Gonçalo we need best conditions in this criteria of infrastructure. It has a big rural area and outlying areas that don’t have some basic services. The city doesn’t have sewage treatment or water supply for all population. We have problems when rains more than normal, some areas don’t have a correct drainage and some streets don’t have paving. If I was a mayor I would invest in this criteria, It should be priority. 5. Why do we move? I decided to choice 3 cities in diferent places of the world that I would like to live: one in Brazil, one in a south american continent and the third in other place of the world. Curitiba, Brazil: 1. Housing plans:there are house distribution to needy and plans to conserve and to improve facades, for exemple; 2. Quality of transportation: They created the model of BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) and innovated the concept of transportation in Brazil; 3. It’s a exemple of sustentability: Curitiba won the Globe Award Sustainable City in 2010, It was in top of a list with Sidney, Malmo and Murcia; 4. Quality of public services: As for education as for health care, the city invests in quality of services; 5. It’s a beautiful place: There are many tourist places, since historic until moderns buildings. Santiago, Chile 1. Quality of life; 2. a country with a stable economy; 3. it’s a country that have the best HDI of South America (data that were published in 2015 by ONU); 4. a city with a good infrastructure; 5. the weather: I would live in a place with a variable climate (a city with a nice climate by side of The Andes). Oslo, Norway 1. It’s known as the best quality of life in the world (the best HDI of world); 2. there is very low violence rates; 3. transportation system: it’s simple but effective; 4. quality of education; 5. life style: It is a peaceful city that preserves local culture.