Liveable City: Nature, Culture, and Human Welfare are all needed to make cities liveable.

by Chew Weng Huat

A liveable city is one that provides all residents with opportunities to live in areas with essential ingredients of a liveable community. It promotes healthy and happy people, community well-being, and is a place where people want to live. A livable city supports good physical and mental health, social relationships, and high life satisfaction and happiness.

A liveable city is a place that offers a high quality of life for its residents. It’s more than just a comfortable place to live; it’s also resilient, with competitive social, economic, and environmental advantages.

Key Factors for liveable communities include residents feeling safe, social connections, environmental sustainability, and access to affordable housing linked via public transport, walking, and cycling infrastructure to employment, education, local shops, public open spaces, parks, health services, and cultural amenities. In essence, a liveable city promotes health, well-being, and equity for its inhabitants.

Liveability, as the result of sustainability, describes the conditions for a decent life for all inhabitants of cities, regions, and communities, including their physical, social, and mental wellbeing. The concept is concerned with optimising the performance and the integrity of human life.

Definition
Founded on balancing society, environment, economy, and culture. a strategy for liveable cities should always seek a sustainable balance of all these components. Localise urban solutions will meet the liveability needs of specific communities.

We need a city to provide a variety of diverse opportunities. Liveability is measured by quality-of-life factors, such as access to fresh water, food, housing, transport, health care, education, and a safe and stable built and natural environment. But liveability of a place is also based on social and psychological factors, like emotion and perception.

Nature

Give priority to natural capital. Provide organic and well-maintained green areas to help mitigate or reverse climate change risks and impacts, as well as to promote the psychophysical well-being of their citizens.

Nature and natural resources perform endless ecosystem services [varied benefits to humans provided by the natural environment and from healthy ecosystems], in addition to increasing the accessibility to public services. Integrating nature into long- term development strategies helps cities meet social, environmental, and economic goals. To improve liveability, we must be inspired by natural ecosystems when designing urban spaces.

Social Services

Human-centred means communities must offer provisions of high-quality services such as public transport, health centres, community centres, kindergartens, public schools, and social services to enhance the quality of life for all. promote the arts and education as fundamental components of its and its citizens’ progress. Providing social services say they care the most about people.

Residents need to feel safe, socially connected, and included—meaning easy access to affordable and diverse housing options linked via public transport, walking, and cycling infrastructure to employment, education, local shops, public open space and parks, health and community services, leisure, and culture.

Great position to help fight social inequalities by providing access to housing and infrastructure, equal rights, and participation, as well as jobs and opportunities. Human ecosystems are best created in inclusive cultures with collaborative processes and open government policies.

Culture

Cultural capitals. cultural values often outweigh their unsustainable aspects. Not rely solely on its history but keep seeking continuous improvements to guarantee a high-quality life for all its current and future citizens.

Essential feature of a city must be culture. shaped and strengthened the community’s identity. With the city’s large scale, identity makes everyone feel at home. Culture helps residents, to stay patient about the slow development of other liveability dimensions. cities around the world are overwhelmed with cars—liveable city is first a city with no cars!

Access to Transport Options

De-focusing on cars supports a positive urban transformation in the medium and long-term, with the possibility to rethink more human-centred spaces like parks, playgrounds, pedestrian routes, and bike lanes.

Transportation was, is, and always will be a community service. For a liveable city, it should offer digital, clean, intelligent, autonomous, and intermodal mobility options, with more walking and cycling spaces.

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“We must stop seeing nature and open space as luxuries—everyone deserves access to nature and open space.”

"Cities provide great opportunities to fight social inequalities by providing access to housing and infrastructure, equal rights, and participation, as well as jobs and opportunities."