The world’s top 10 most liveable cities
Part of a larger review - this is just the slide show. Nice pictures. Vancouver isn’t one of them.
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I am a recusant transportation economist and regional planner, displaced from England by the abolition of the Greater London Council and a dislike of Thatcherism. Until March of 2004 I worked for the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority on wide variety of policy issues. None of these have been solved since I left, and the region now seems to be likely to abandon its long established growth strategy altogether, as the province is determined to expand its major freeway. I have long advocated more sensible policies to better integrate transport and land use. And this blog is a way to keep up the pressure! It also allows me to vent a bit on related issues.
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The editor and founder of Monocle magazine, Tyler Brûlé, is Canadian. I don’t know much about him, but I have read some reviews of issues of the magazine. Apparently, Tyler does not really like Canada all that much. So I’m not really surprised that no Canadian cities are included in the slide-show.
This is not to say that I believe that any Canadian city actually deserves to be included in a list of the world’s most liveable cities. I think that all North American cities are much too automobile-centric to even qualify for consideration.