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5.1 Measuring liveability
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Check your learning 5.1
Remember and understand
1 How do companies measure the liveability of places around the world?
2 What are the objective measures of liveability for countries? Why are these important?
3 What are subjective measures of liveability and how are they measured?
Apply and analyse
4 Safety is a key liveability measure in all communities.
a What do you think are the most important safety issues for people living in large Australian cities?
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b What do you think are the most important safety issues for people living in Damascus (see Source
2).
c Which safety issues are similar and which are different?