These May Be The Least 'Livable' Cities, But They're the Future

Melbourne, Vienna, and Vancouver are awfully nice cities. With stable economies and political systems, high education levels and efficient infrastructure, it's no surprise they've taken the top three slots in the latest iteration of the Economist Intelligence Unit's Livability Ranking and Overview. By the simplified standards of rankings like these, we're to understand that the cities at the bottom of the list – Dhaka, Bangladesh, Lagos, Nigeria, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, and Harare, Zimbabwe – are much less nice.

And yet, thanks to their booming populations and densities, it's these bottom-ranking cities that more heavily represent the future of our global cities. Do Melbourne, Vienna, and Vancouver really have anything in common with Bangladesh?