Zurich and Geneva among top five European cities

Switzerland’s two largest cities, Zurich and Geneva, both rank in the top five most liveable cities in Europe but just miss the global top ten, according to the 2018 Economic Intelligence Unit’s annual survey results. Both cities improved upon their 2017 ranking with Zurich jumping from 15th to 11th place globally, and Geneva moving up four places to 14th. Vienna takes the top spot for the first time in the rankings’ history, unseating Melbourne, which topped the survey for seven consecutive years. Copenhagen also climbed up the ranking as the only other European city to make the global top ten. At the bottom of the list are Lagos (Nigeria), Dhaka (Bangladesh) and Damascus (Syria). The liveability survey assesses which locations around the world provide the best or the worst living conditions. The average global liveability score improved for the second consecutive year, nearly one percentage point, for the 140 cities benchmarked. Nearly half of the cities surveyed saw their ...