Should Auckland still want to be “the world’s most liveable city”?
Indications are that new mayor Phil Goff wants a change to the current vision outlined in the Auckland Plan of becoming the “world’s most liveable city”.
Goff has also indicated that Brown’s slogan “the world’s most liveable city” will be phased out.…
55 Comments Alternative explanations for Auckland house prices
Last week I took a look at the economics underlying Demographia’s “International Housing Affordability Survey” and found them severely lacking. As it turns out, Demographia’s data isn’t much good as a measure of the costs of poor planning rules – but it does seem to provide some information about people’s “revealed preference” for urban amenity.…
Demographia fails Urban Economics 101
Every year since 2005, pro-sprawl think-tank Demographia has published a new edition of its “International Housing Affordability Survey“. They report a “median multiple” measure of housing affordability that compares median house prices to median household incomes within a number of cities, mostly in the English-speaking world.…
The World’s Most Liveable Cities
Auckland has the goal of becoming the World’s Most Liveable City – a goal that is highly achievable given many of our current advantages (natural setting, low crime rates, mild climate etc.) But what makes a truly liveable city? This is something various agencies like Mercer, the Economist and Monocle try to figure out in their annual surveys.…
Auckland still ranks highly for liveability
Mercer has released their 2014 quality of life rankings and Auckland is third in them once again.
Top 5 Cities
1. Vienna, Austria
2. Zurich, Switzerland
3. Auckland, New Zealand
4. Munich, Germany
5. Vancouver, Canada
Vienna is the city with the world’s best quality of living, according to the Mercer 2014 Quality of Living rankings, in which European cities dominate.…
Why being a liveable city is important economically
Len Brown made a big deal in his first term about making Auckland the world’s most liveable city and projects like the CRL are key to that vision. But when it comes to business and Auckland’s economy is that vision worth it or should we instead be focused on keeping rates as low as absolutely possible – as the likes of Cameron Brewer would have us do.…
Auckland ranked 10th most liveable city once again
The Economist’s Intelligence Unit have once again released their global liveability rankings which ranks cities all around the world.
The concept of liveability is simple: it assesses which locations around the world provide the best or the worst living conditions. Assessing liveability has a broad range of uses, from benchmarking perceptions of development levels to assigning a hardship allowance as part of expatriate relocation packages.…
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