If it's made life liveable, who cares whether I'm an addict?
"The changes we're making are transforming Leicester into a much more liveable place," said Soulsby.
"I know it's just a small corner of the city, but it demonstrates how dramatic the shift in the quality of space could be if you made it more liveable," Manohar says.
Thanks to fewer people in the countryside, farming is becoming more efficient.A better reason to worry about sprawl is that it is making China's cities less "harmonious and liveable", to use a phrase in vogue among the country's city planners.
We are making progress while working to maintain some of the safest, most liveable cities in North America.Gordon Campbell Premier of British Columbia Victoria, Canada* SIR – The title to your article was misleading, as Colombia is not mentioned in the story at all.
They have been making encouraging noises about the need to reform the iniquitous hukou system, strengthen farmers' property rights and make cities more "liveable".But Mr Xi needs to go much further.
Yes, life here is not ideal; the city could and should be a vastly more liveable place.
Making streets more liveable is not only about cycling, but also about walking, relaxing, socialising, running businesses and shopping - objectives that sometimes conflict and so demand rather more than headline-grabbing examples of "going Dutch".
But taken cumulatively, they have resulted in the emergence of a very different city; one that is eminently more liveable.
