World's most livable cities

Since 2002, Melbourne, the capital city of Victoria, is called as the world most livable city and the term livability has become so widely and used differently due to numerous rankings of livability has been studied(ABC.au 2014). However, most of the surveys ( see for instance liveablecity.org 2014) use the livability term to describe the quality of life and characteristics of each city which makes it livable. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s global livability survey, there is a data shown massive benefits of living in Melbourne which make Melbourne win the award for four years and receive higher scores than other cities in the world, nevertheless it appears likely that there is some disadvantages which need to be focused. This…

Las Vegas. To do this our main objective splits into two smaller tasks. The first is to combat stigma surrounding a Las Vegas wedding. It is important to show the couples who may have a biased perception of Las Vegas that, yes, there are the cheesy Elvis weddings, yes Las Vegas is a party city, and yes, sometimes people wake up after a bender laying next to a stranger who they decided to marry the night before, but there is so much more than just the stereotypical perception of the city. The…

found out a lot of secrets and things Kony has being doing. Kony has being kidnapping and turning kids into rebels for 26 years, kids as young as 5 years old. Kony also has been taken girls who are than turned into sex slaves for him and his rebel groups. Apart from making the kids kill their parents. Kony makes the kids to mutilate other people's faces or their own to look different. When they look different it is harder to find them. This a way for Kony to stay in charge by making sure those…

Australia is the sixth largest country and has one of the world’s largest ocean territory. Vegetation makes up 91% of the country. More than 80% of the people who live in australia live by the coast. There are two hundred different languages spoke in Australia. Some are Italian,Greek and Arabic that is just some of the languages spoken there. They are known to have amazing rainforest, ancient rock formations and great beaches. They were the second country that allowed women the right to vote in…

Our beloved city, Melbourne has celebrated her 180th birthday this year. One hundred and eighty years ago in June 1835, the tall ship Enterprize sailed up the Yarra River. Landing a party of five men, one woman, a cat, stores and livestock on the northern bank headed by John Batman. Recording in his diary John described what he saw: "About six miles up, found the river all good water and very deep. This will be the place for a village”. Thus a fledgling settlement had begun. For almost…

doubled from what the population was in 1960 (Esteban). With the amount of resources that the human population uses it is astonishing that the Earth is capable of sustaining this much life. It is also astounding that cities are able to bear the total consumption of their residents. The city is central to human life and in 2007 more than half of the world’s population lived in cities and by 2050 that number will be up to three quarters (New Lenses 5). Cities will not be able to keep up with…

Detroit, the motor city, used to be the pinnacle of the American manufacturing industry. The 1950’s and 1960’s was the root of our modern day cities. This period of urban planning in America was one of idealized visions of vast cities and great public works projects. The urban planning practices of this period were consistent with “segregated and dispersed” development throughout the city generating an unsustainable urban sprawl and socio-economic concentration into the suburbs. Over 60 years…

Canada shares a 5,525 mile long border with the United States, which is the most sizable voluminous border not patrolled by military forces. The majority of the Canadian population lives within 185 miles from the international border. Canada’s total land area includes thousands of adjacent islands. Canada is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, Greenland to the northeast, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the United States to the south, and the Pacific Ocean and Alaska to the west.…

studies the life and human interactions in the city. The social life in the twenty first century consists of both the traditional and familiar trends as well as the new developing trends (Sassen, 2006). Hence, living in the cities is always exciting as well as complicated. Dhaka is a city which has a history of more than 400 years. In 1610, Dhaka was named as Jahangirnagar by subedar Islam Khan Chishti. Many of the famous infrastructures were built during the British and Mughal period but over…

It is also favorable for a journalist to be naturally curious and interested in news and current event. Most assignments will be done alone but it is important to be able to work well both alone and with a team. Job duties could include finishing a writing assignment in a short amount of time, interviewing different kinds of people, networking, and fact checking new stories for fairness and accuracy. Unfortunately, jobs for reporters and correspondents are decreasing, although jobs for…