Elliot now lives independently, in liveable design housing, thanks to the liveable housing Australia initiative.
On £100 you couldn't make a pigsty liveable, entertain new friends, and live".
Jan Gehl, Richard Rogers and Arup's Jerome Frost will be discussing liveable cities at a Guardian Live event on Tuesday 9 December.
This week he met up with his old chum Richard Rogers, our own doyen of the public realm, along with Arup's head of planning, Jerome Frost, to discuss what makes a liveable city, at a Guardian Live event that I had the pleasure of chairing.
Dutch entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp is going to be furnishing those exact dreams with his Mars One project, which aims to build a liveable settlement on Mars, before sending four humans to live there for the rest of their lives in 2023, followed by more batches of people as the years go on, living there for the REST of their lives. .
There are no liveable cities where you might actually want to live.
Would people actually want to live in completely new garden cities? Or would they prefer to see improvements and additions to the places they currently live in - making them more liveable?
On Tuesday, human resources giant Mercer published its 18th annual Quality of Living survey, naming Vienna the most liveable city in the world.
Singapore ranked 28th in the Mercer 2010 Quality of Living survey of the world's most liveable cities, and in 22nd place as an Eco-City.
It tied with San Francisco in 51st position in The Economist's index of the World's Most Liveable Cities, making it the fourth-best city to live in Asia after Osaka, Tokyo and Hong Kong.
