The word "liveable" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something (e.g. a city, a house, a climate, etc.) that can comfortably sustain human life and can also provide a good quality of life. For example: "This city is highly liveable; it has plenty of jobs, great schools, and a thriving nightlife."
With a rating of almost 100, Vancouver is the world's most liveable city according to the Economist Intelligence Unit's latest liveability ranking (see full report).
He said that, in addition to scrapping fossil fuel subsidies and introducing a carbon tax, the World Bank's plan involved spending more on energy efficiency, measures to make agriculture greener and changes to help cities become less polluted and more liveable.
Civic planners in the world's largest metropolises have learned how to make urban spaces safer and more liveable, allowing cities to recover, thanks to new approaches to policing and social investment," he says.
The first step towards making cities less dangerous and more liveable is improved communication.
"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.
As some of the world's large cities turn themselves around and thrive – just 600 now account for two-thirds of global GDP – countless smaller and medium-sized cities, mainly in Africa, Latin America and Asia, are descending deeper into violence and becoming less liveable, says a leading Latin American urban specialist.
But taken cumulatively, they have resulted in the emergence of a very different city; one that is eminently more liveable.
Luzhkov was fired in 2010 and replaced with Sergei Sobyanin, a transition that coincided with some in Moscow beginning to think seriously about how to make the city not just richer, but more liveable.
Increasing congestion, pollution, and inaccessibility, or a more liveable and sustainable environment?
In the show's seventh year of dominance, host Ryan Seacrest negotiated a 300% pay raise, going from a meager $5m annually to a more liveable $15m, guaranteed for three years.
People prefer liveable, walkable communities," she says.
