The “Global Power City Index”, a ranking of 35 of the world’s top cities researched by the Institute for Urban Strategies at The Mori Memorial Foundation in Tokyo rates Berlin in 10th place – behind the top 3 cities of Zurich, Copenhagen and Tokio.
Vancouver, Vienna, and Melbourne are the ‘best’ cities in the world to live in and to visit according to the London-based Economist Intelligent Unit Survey. This is the same << Intelligent Unit>> that advised Americans to vote for George W Bush in both terms he ran. Berlin is not in the top ten.
The American based “Mercer Quality of Living Global City rankings 2009”, ranked Berlin 16th and put Vienna in first place followed by Zurich and Geneva.. The same company also gages global city infrastructures and Berlin was on the 29th place.
According to the Institute for Urban Strategies in Tokio, “as half of the people of the world are living in cities, it is necessary to create attractive urban space to pull the people, goods, and money, those who are moving borderless, and to pursue the enjoyable and livable environment.” The index, which is the first of its kind out of Japan, aims to judge the comprehensive power of a city.
In order to eliminate as much subjectivity as possible the rankings are based on six overall objective factors, “Economy,” “Research & Development,” “Cultural Interaction,” “Livability,” “Ecology & Natural Environment,” and “Accessibility,” with 69 individual indicators among them. The institute also expanded its study by looking at the cities from the subjective perspective of five different ‘actors’ (or types of people who influence cities): global “Managers,” “Researchers,” “Artists,” “Visitors,” and local “Residents.”
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