Evaluating City Liveability: Indexes, Rankings, and Youth Perspectives
Explore different indexes for evaluating city liveability, including The Economist Intelligence Unit's ranking and Mercer's Quality of Living Ranking. Discover the most liveable cities globally and delve into the important factors for cities according to the Youth Millennials Survey of 2016. Engage in a task to create an ideal evaluation system for cities or neighborhoods, followed by a quick rating exercise using the system. Gain insights into evaluating liveability, from economy to environment.
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Liveability scores How to evaluate cities
How good is your area to How good is your area to live in? live in?
Different indexes for city liveability The Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) Global Liveability Ranking 5 areas: stability, infrastructure, education, health care & environment Monocle's Quality of Life Survey safety, international connectivity, climate, quality of architecture, public transport, tolerance, environment, urban design, business conditions, pro-active policy making and medical care Mercer's Quality of Living Ranking safety, education, hygiene, health care public transport public transport and access to goods & services health care, culture, environment environment, recreation, stability,
Youth Millennials Survey of 2016 Important factors for the cities,
Task 1 for you (15 min): In tasks-groups create an ideal evaluation system for cities/n-hoods. That is come up with a number of most important economy, environment) and give them certain weights: most important criteria for a city/n-hood (e.g. E.g. 50% of economics opportunities + 50% of access to nature = your index 1. Make the index easy to understand & apply, as we are going to use it for the next task and also in the next activity (we advice to use a scale from 1 to 10 use a scale from 1 to 10) 2. Put down your measurement system on an A3 paper 3. After 15 min, briefly present to others & also tell which cities (worldwide) would score the most in it
Task 2 Your task is to use your created evaluation system and give ratings to towns/neighbourhoods (next slide) Think fast, because you will have 7 minutes 7 minutes per slide!
Kaunas (Old Town) Note: you can either rate city as a whole or just the n-hood (depending on your evaluation system)
What score have you given & (briefly) why? Group No 1 Group No 2 Group No 3 Group No 4 Group No 5 Group No 6
