The Economist Intelligence Unit-the city rankings specialist-has a new list claiming the best cities to live. And they have an interesting new livability metrics to judge the world’s cities.
The rankings combined EIU’s popular “Liveability Index” with a new measure that focuses on spatial characteristics. The “Spatially Adjusted Livability Index” takes into account seven characteristics such as Sprawl, Green space, Natural assets, Cultural assets, Connectivity, Isolation and Pollution
Here are the 10 best cities to live in:
1. Hong Kong
2. Amsterdam
3. Osaka
4. Paris
5. Sydney
6. Stockholm
7. Berlin
8. Toronto
9. Munich
10. Tokyo
And the 10 worst:
1. Tehran
2. Nairobi
3. Lusaka
4. Phnom Penh
5. Karachi
6. Dakar
7. Abidjan
8. Dhaka
9. Lagos
10. Harare
king
January 29, 2014 at 1:09 pm
Which Lusaka, ? this Dirty lsk? stop lying
DATA
January 29, 2014 at 2:01 pm
Can you read again please
Edward Snowden
January 30, 2014 at 8:11 am
Comprehension baba. Read and understand!
tutu
January 30, 2014 at 2:47 pm
@king chikala chobe belenge lyashi first elo ukomente later, waba amabolo mumatobo…
MFP
January 29, 2014 at 1:34 pm
6 out of 10 worts cities are in Africa.
the president'ale'
January 30, 2014 at 11:56 am
what do u mean are you pipo understanding what u are reading or someone else is reading for u
Mukombe Wamano
January 29, 2014 at 2:09 pm
I agree 100% Lusaka is very very dirty, unplanned and disorganized.
mukombe
January 30, 2014 at 9:48 pm
sad
Francis
January 29, 2014 at 2:11 pm
This people are liers.What about Bangui,Damascus,Cairo,Kampala,Accra.This are worst cities man kind can not live in
Captain
January 29, 2014 at 2:45 pm
Ba Francis naimwe muletusebanya ne chisungu chenu bane. Ati This people…., This are worst….
Coming to the topic above, true Lusaka deserves to be on the list of worst Cities to live in. Try Bots, Gaborone, very small and neat city to live in and quiet. No kabbovas and vuvuzelas.
Ken
January 29, 2014 at 5:07 pm
You sound you have not traveled Mr English Interllectual.
There are several cities even in india where sewer flows arround houses and the strees as normal.
There are several cities where guns sound every hour – Detroit
There are several cities were there is no running water for 90% of the day.
Probably these are the cities that were sampled.
Harare cannot be the least you fool.
Captain
January 29, 2014 at 6:18 pm
1di0t, ch1colour
Ken
January 31, 2014 at 1:44 pm
Wailetelelafye.Iwe chikala of all the things can you just type this nonsense. Kanye elyo ushinde.check your anuss properly ufumyepo amafi. satanyoko matoleyobe panputi. Atase uyu chikala.
the president'ale'
January 30, 2014 at 12:03 pm
what has happened to pipo posting comm today remove THIS and put these pipo remove THIS and put these are the worst!!!!!!!!!!!!!! awe mwe kuti wanaka no kufunda ifisungu…am very much sure that u are part of the pipo supporting the remover of English to local languages.
id!ot!
January 30, 2014 at 1:30 pm
Classical example of the adage, the pot calling the kettle black…ati ”supporting the remover of English to local languages”. What crap is this?
Zimandolan
January 30, 2014 at 7:21 pm
Seems like bafikala imwe nangu muleiseka tapaba uwaishiba ichisungu.Ati ba-kolwe baiseka ifipato
Charlie2000
January 29, 2014 at 2:40 pm
So what? These pipo who rate are useless! Leave Lusaka alone, as though u do help us clean it!
zedman
January 30, 2014 at 10:02 am
thats being ignorant,lusaka is very dirty.lets learn to accept certain things thats when we can change them
gile
January 30, 2014 at 11:22 am
charlie2000 lusaka is surely one of the dirtiest cities you cant pick anything once it drops not even the coins. plz learn to accept
Isaac
January 29, 2014 at 2:58 pm
That’s trash how can Lusaka be worse than Bangui or worse than Tripoli or worse than Cairo where pipo are hacking each other like rats and worse still than Bamako in Mali? Mind you, they are not considering cleanliness only but many other factors.
KAKOOKA
January 29, 2014 at 3:03 pm
Too bad we have to be in the news for the wrong reasons
Davido
January 29, 2014 at 3:17 pm
Ba King, you were the first to post and you missed the story. Do not read between the lines.
BK
January 29, 2014 at 3:42 pm
Colleagues, the report is not talking about cities ravaged by civil strife/war. look at the criteria/characteristics used to pick on these cities which include – “Sprawl, Green space, Natural assets, Cultural assets, Connectivity, Isolation and Pollution”. Definately Lusaka deserves to be where it is – period!
Gvo
January 29, 2014 at 4:03 pm
Iam glad Blantyre is not there!Lusaka sucks! Traffic congestion,Dirtiness,Noisy!Sorry Ba neighbour but it’s true
nebo
January 30, 2014 at 8:01 am
did you raelise blantyre or whaterver you call it is not a city?
Kazeze
January 29, 2014 at 4:08 pm
Whoever is arguing with this classification must have his/her head examined. Lusaka desrves to make the list of worst cities in the world.
BC
January 29, 2014 at 4:09 pm
Where is Kinshasa on the list? And these chaps have never been to Central Johannesburg. What is good about living in a city where you can be shot at any time? Toronto? Useless rankings. I would be happier to live in the untapped Chitambo district than your so called best cities.
Mulenga and Jelita
January 29, 2014 at 4:19 pm
Cleanliness is next to Godliness.
Christian nation my arse?
Who exactly are we fooling?
KA GELO
January 29, 2014 at 4:29 pm
Rubbish
ex Lusaka
January 29, 2014 at 5:03 pm
Totaly agree, driving in Lusaka is a nitemare, people crossing roads without lookin left right, mini bus stoping anywhere as there wish,its filthy, un-organised, let’s call a spade a spade, lusaka is rubbish, only goood for making monies
TumF KO DAFT
January 29, 2014 at 5:09 pm
Is Hong kong a CITY?
Roga Roga
January 30, 2014 at 8:00 am
Yes my friend it is a City. A bit like Singapore and the Vatican which are both cities and countries at the same time… But of course we cannot classify Hong Kong as such because it was handed back to Chinese authority in 1997. History is a beautiful thing.
x
January 30, 2014 at 8:03 am
though being independent from china, it still retains the ‘city’ status.
AWE
January 30, 2014 at 8:29 am
Imwe naimwe, nabamweba ati, ”handed back to China”.
clency
January 29, 2014 at 5:23 pm
The analysis is very very true
ChiKA
January 29, 2014 at 5:25 pm
The list is somewhat true, but for worst Cities, I beg to differ. There are some Cities that are far much worse, I just wonder what criteria they used.
Joe Bidden
January 29, 2014 at 5:37 pm
Ifiko bafikala! So called council is non-existence! Iam not surprised.
CHAFYA
January 29, 2014 at 5:48 pm
we ar even luck to be on the worst list,ar u forgeting that our town is next to chibolya and kanyama while soweto is the most populated where we go with dunlops.
Conman
January 29, 2014 at 6:06 pm
Slums such as Chilenje, misisi, kuku , john howard and Chawama are the cause of this dirty and hence such ranking. Sunningdale where i live is so pristine and tranquil .
Uniqueo
January 29, 2014 at 7:00 pm
@ MFP, yes, 6 out of 10 are African cities and not a single African city is on the top 10 list of best cities to live in. Africans . . .
Bob Marley
January 29, 2014 at 10:56 pm
Chilubi Island or Shang’ombo are ever better organized and Clean than Lusaka. Umwana ashenda…
Accumen
January 30, 2014 at 3:46 am
We need to stretch our cities. road are pathetic.When entering the city its like getting into a hole.We need interstates roads at least 4 lanes all the exiting roads.Remove all these shanty compound along the main roads such as mumbwa road all those shops along the oad should be removed.let us think big not like we are in a cave.
Accumen
January 30, 2014 at 3:50 am
The other problem we have in Zambia is that we exaggerate rentals.Rentals are just too high that is why the mushrooming of compounds and it seems no body cares.
Mulenga
January 30, 2014 at 6:47 am
Too much dirty in our cities. Look at Soweto market, look at the surroundings of fly over bridges – awe nenama shaikalapo bwino.
Edward Snowden
January 30, 2014 at 8:21 am
Its just sad how people fail to comprehend a story. These ratings aint about civil unrest, peace etc, they are about connectivity, green spaces etc. Though I seem not to agree with this study, but maybe the sample size was not broad enough….and these are ‘poor results’. Where is Kabul?
SEKOPONOKE
January 30, 2014 at 8:28 am
Street vending has contributed a lot to the filth in Lusaka. These guys just throw rubbish any how, clogging the drainage structures in the process. And the big question is where to they go to relieve themselves as there are no toilet facilities to carter for these vendors in the streets? Ifiko fyacilamo fye…malaabishi aya
Chisokone Maliketi
January 30, 2014 at 9:53 am
“Kano takaliko mama”
FELONY
January 30, 2014 at 9:55 am
atleast it will call for tourists to come see our dirty city and that it is known world-wide and if the city is not mentioned then it is not recognised.
lusaka resident
January 30, 2014 at 10:42 am
REMOVE STREET VENDORS IN CBD AREA AND LUSAKA WILL BE REMOVED ON THE WORST LIST.
dunga
January 30, 2014 at 2:20 pm
Come and see the area on katunjila road opposite afe house and u will agree bcoz u will see open air restuarants where people r cooking and u also find people urinating there very freely
amo
January 30, 2014 at 6:23 pm
No American city ranks among the best!!! Am glad Munich is on the list having lived and studied there for 7 years. It is such a wonderful city in every sense: very well planned with open spaces, a variety of easily accessible transport networks and providing a lot to look out for from the culture of the Bavarians, historical sites like Odeon’s platz under Hitler’s third reich to the latest modern sites like the olympia dorf etc. There are also old historical sites like palaces of kings and princesses from the middle ages.
Zimandolan
January 30, 2014 at 7:23 pm
And where is Maputo and Adis ababa ? Crap list
pompwe
January 30, 2014 at 7:39 pm
its worse under pf..yes..
iza
January 30, 2014 at 10:09 pm
what do you expect with all that street vending going on at every corner of the city.
kakolwe
January 30, 2014 at 10:42 pm
As far as polution is concerned, Hong Kong has never had had a clear sky. It is ever poluted by exhaust from evry kind of machinery. kwati niku Kwacha – Mufurila on a worse day.
king
January 31, 2014 at 4:33 am
@ Tutu, twatasha ba Lesa bamipale, sorry i didnt ready properly.
chinyimba
January 31, 2014 at 8:09 am
m not suprised even worst five it can b
Ba zed
January 31, 2014 at 8:54 am
let just clean our city,its realy dirty mwila talika ba fikala imwe.
maguys
January 31, 2014 at 9:37 am
Indeed our city is a worst place to live in
mailoni brother
January 31, 2014 at 9:53 am
biased assesment.where do you place mogadishu then.
ex zit
January 31, 2014 at 12:38 pm
I expected Ndola to be on the list the best cities to live in… Anyway Lusaka deserves it mwandini tatutemwa ngatwaisako… Kitwe is actually second to Lusaka!! Only ZIT is clean there lol!
Rod
January 31, 2014 at 1:04 pm
Lusaka is a filthy city period! Not surprised that it is listed as one of the dirtiest city in the world. Just look at the huge rubbish heaps everywhere. look at the state of the unplanned townships and buildings
EXODUS
January 31, 2014 at 1:56 pm
ha ha ha ha ha nimikonka sana ba mambala
cilamuntu kulanda eko aya bambi ati Blantyre nangu
te city..ha ha ha ha Kanshi naine nalalanda ati can Lusaka be compared to mpulungu!!!!!!!!!! hehehe
gee
January 31, 2014 at 2:15 pm
LUSAKA CAN BE A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE IN IF US PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN LUSAKA TAKE CARE OF IT IN TERMS OF CLEANLINESS AND REMOVE ALL STREET VENDORS FROM THE CORRIDORS IN THE MAIN STREETS LIKE CAIRO ROAD, FREEDOM, CHACHACHA AND THE FAMOUS LUMUMBA ROAD. INDEED IT DOES NOT LOOK LIKE A CAPITAL CITY. EVEN A VILLAGER CAN NOT BE SCARED OF THE BUILDINGS. LETS WORK HARD ZAMBIANS TO IMPROVE OUR CAPITAL CITY LUSAKA.
Sobongo
January 31, 2014 at 2:26 pm
If you have never been to Asia, you could agree with the above ranking! There are worse cities in India baby! Lusaka is better, small and dirty as it is.
Wellard
January 31, 2014 at 2:57 pm
Prof Luo had the ambition to clean Lusaka, but was demoted to protect kaponyas(voters). Our city is filthy and smelly. Crime is high because we keep letting prisoners out twice a year without rehabilitating them. Cops will not act on a crime unless you pay them.
dancing
January 31, 2014 at 3:05 pm
no comment.
Wellard
January 31, 2014 at 6:06 pm
Keep Lusaka Clean should be in Local languages,