Meanwhile the inhabitants of the forgotten 1.5 percent, Gazans, remain isolated in an area that a recent United Nations report concluded might not be "a liveable place" by 2020.
We may be too late to halt the melting of the Arctic sea ice but we are not too late to maintain a liveable climate and Earth.
It's a liveable place, but not like London.
The concerns and interests of citizens are coming to the forefront nowadays with the awareness that a liveable city does not only consist of good infrastructure and sustainable energy supply but also citizen input and feedback.
No, it won't be an easy haul, but the prize - a liveable Earth for our civilization, and a far healthier US economy - is worth it.
The global community also needs to play a role in delivering critical and urgent aid so that the solutions are not just a patch up job, but a well thought out plan that will keep Kiribati a liveable nation.
Supporters of green belts say the urban sprawl built in the 1920s and 1930s did not produce liveable communities and that housing can be built in a properly-planned way without getting rid of green belt laws.
So you see here we've got our classic London "all of the technical components of a liveable space, billed as a liveable space and described as a 'studio apartment', but not actually, truly, a liveable space".
"Barcelona is a liveable city right now, but could stop being that way if measures aren't taken to correct these differences".
