LibGuides: Humanities: Liveability

What is Liveability?

Liveable cities
Liveability may be defined as the quality of life in a community where residents feel connected, safe, socially concerned and there is access to services such as transport, employment and education.

Diversitat
Diversitat is a Geelong-based organisation that supports refugees who have arrived in Australia and others seeking asylum. It supports family connections from overseas amongst a range of different communities.

COGG Employment Staus
This link to a range of graphs highlighting employment trends in Geelong is based on 2016 Census data. In the past Geelong has relied upon a manufacturing industry to attract workers. In recent years, employment in Geelong can be found in information, health care and service industries.
Economy, jobs and business insights
A range of information highlighting current employment trends in the Geelong region.

Australia's housing affordability crisis
In terms of liveability, affordability means that residents can afford to live where they wish to live. The ability for young people to own their own home is becoming economically difficult in capital cities.

Sustainable living

Go to the Environment Victoria website to have a look at their Sustainable living campaign and the steps they suggest we can take to improve our sense of liveability.

Geelong Sustainability Group
A not for profit community group run by volunteers promoting sustainability in the Geelong community.
Wathaurong Community
Website of the Wathaurong community which includes their history and involvement in place within the Geelong region.

Victoria Walks
To assess the walkability of your suburb, you could conduct a walking audit to see how your streets measure up. You could even conduct a street survey of your local street.

Street survey
Use this document to survey the liveability standards of your local street.

Streetmix
An interactive game where you can design the layout and liveability options for a street in a city.

Enhancing Liveability

Improving the livability of our cities, towns and rural areas depends upon a range of factors.

Britannica on-line

Provides research materials in 3 reading levels. Students can use any level.

To log in, use the card number below that corresponds to your year level:

CLON07; CLON08; CLON09; CLON10; CLON11; CLON12; CLONST (This one is for staff)

The Most Liveable City?

Liveable Cities

10 most liveable cities
These are the ten most liveable cities in 2021.

Geelong Library and Heritage Centre

7 Reasons Geelong is a livable city.
The article highlights seven factors that attract people to Geelong and which make it a livable city.
Auckland as the world's most liveable city.
This article from The Conversation examines whether all residents of Auckland benefit from living in the world's most liveable city.
Housing development
The challenges local government and residents face when people move to Torquay and the Geelong region.