The World’s Most Liveable Cities
AUSTRALIAN cities occupy five of the top 20 places in a British survey ranking the liveability of 140 of the world’s major centres.
Melbourne ranked third in the world, behind Vancouver in Canada and the Austrian city of Vienna in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2009 Liveability survey.
It assessed 140 cities based on stability, health [...]
Top 10 Old Town districts
An article looking at cities around the world – including Kyoto – with old districts.
You have arrived in a new city and don’t know where to start. Tempting as it is to hop on a sightseeing bus with a two-kilogram guide book in one hand and a list of "must-sees" in the other, there is [...]
The World’s Most Photographed Landmarks
The world’s most photographed landmarks
An academic analysis of more than 33 million images uploaded to the popular Flickr photo-sharing website reveals that the flagship Apple Store in midtown Manhattan is the 28th most photographed place on earth.
New York City is the world’s most photographed city with more than 12 million of the photos taken there.
The [...]