Livable Cities in the WORLD

  I love strolling somewhere I've already known or not. 2 weeks ago, I walked around Paris, France and it remained me how fun to crawl around. And Barcelona also threw me a ball which raised my remembrance of a research on a magazine. "Economist" released its own list of the most livable cities in the world a couple month ago and following is the top 10 cities.

 


"The Economist Intelligence Unit's Global Livability Report"
1      Melbourne     Australia      97.5
2      Vienna          Austria      97.4
3      Vancouver     Canada      97.3
4      Toronto          Canada      97.2
5      Calgary          Canada      96.6
5      Adelaide     Australia      96.6
7      Sydney          Australia      96.1
8      Helsinki     Finland      96.0
9      Perth          Australia      95.9
10      Auckland     New Zealand      95.7

Then, looking at an another list of the top 10 cities by "Monocle" magazine.

"Monocle's Most Livable Cities Index 2012"
1      Zurich          Switzerland
2      Helsinki     Finland
3      Copenhagen     Denmark
4      Vienna          Austria
5      Munich          Germany
6      Melbourne     Australia
7      Tokyo          Japan
8      Sydney          Australia
9      Auckland     New Zealand
10      Stockholm     Sweden

 There isn't Japan on the Economist's list but, scarcely, on the Monocles. On the contrary, Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, Helsinki and Vienna are on the both lists. What is a difference between the cities on the both lists and on the one list only? Moreover what is a difference between the both top 10 cities and unlisted cities? Thinking of that, I realise there aren't any gigantic cities such as New York, Lindon, Madrid, Paris and Tokyo; it's scarcely on the Monocle's at 7 spot. Then, I think the word "livable" is actually important and effective. Those cities have astonishing infrastructures, and too many varieties of shops including restraints and kinds. However these mean it's also needed more money and too occupied.

 To target for Japan, especially Tokyo, payments for living is overwhelmingly high, accessibility for everything is just perfect though. There is everything from all over the world in Tokyo, however it's harder and tougher than any other cities to create "your own life-style". I guess that's one of the reason for unlisted.

 In Japan, there is a phrase that is "Home is where you make it.". I reckon it actually is whether your city is on the lists or not.

Where is a public ART?

 This past week-end, in Tokyo, the sun was shine, the sky was purely blue and cherry blossoms are almost fully bloomed despite winds were still little bit chilly. So these indicated the time to do "Hanami".

 "Hanami" is a cherry blossom festival. Many carrying foods and drinks and set them under cherry blossom trees. It's traditional annual thing in Japan.Then, on that kind of weather, I, of-course, love to go outside, so I did. I walked all around the emperor place. Then I just thought "walking under the cherry brossums is pretty fun, but without it...". In New York City, there is a lot of public arts, that makes fun of walking. In Paris, la passages and architectures are like public arts, so those make people having fun during walking too. In Tokyo... where is a public art? I know there is few, actually thinking of size of the city, it's precisely not enough even it dosen't make anyone's fun for strolling. I think Japan should sift to the next step, which cities or towns dedicate more to people as not only governmentl things but social. Thinking more about communitis may make us stronger and tighter than before, and even it makes us to improve communities, I reckon.