Vancouver, BC, has enjoyed top ranking as the Economist Intelligence Unit's number one most liveable city in the past ten years, but in the EIU's annual survey published in last month in August, Melbourne, Australia, topped the list. In a related but smaller separate survey, Monocle magazine bestowed their number one ranking to Helsinki in their publication's Quality of Life Top 25 most liveable cities survey. That report was published in Monocle's July/Aug 2011 issue. Here's an at-a-glance look at the EIU's top 10 in the attached infographic.

1. -August 2011
A pictorial presentation of the top 10 most liveable cities named in the
Economist Intelligence Unit’s survey of 140 cities around the world.
Image Credits:
① MELBOURNE: Grimshaw Architects
Seafarers Footbridge & Melbourne
Convention and Exhibition Centre in South
Wharf by Donald Y Tong courtesy Creative
③ ①
Commons License.
② VIENNA: Tram type L, car No. 466 on
line 5 in the Alserbachstrasse, Trams de
Vienne by Herbert Ortner courtesy Flickr /
Creative Commons License.
② ⑥
③ VANCOUVER: View from Grouse
Mountain of Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada by Adam Lindsay courtesy Flickr /
Creative Commons License.
④ TORONTO: The arches at Nathan
Phillips Square at dusk, Toronto, Ontario by
Benson Kua courtesy Creative Commons
License. ⑩
⑤ CALGARY: Calgary, Alberta by Geo
Swan courtesy Flickr / Creative Commons
⑤
License.
⑥ SYDNEY: Sydney Harbour Bridge at
sunset by Adam J.W.C. courtesy Creative
Commons License.
⑦ HELSINKI: A Helsinki metro train ⑧ ⑨
crossing the Vuosaari metro bridge,
between the stations of Rastila and Puotila ⑦
by Kallerna courtesy Creative Commons
❶ MELBOURNE
License.
❷ VIENNA
⑧ PERTH: Council House Lights by
Michael Spencer courtesy Flickr /Creative ❸ VANCOUVER
Commons License. ❹ TORONTO
⑨ ADELAIDE: Entrance walkway to the ❺ CALGARY
National Wine Centre, Adelaide, South ❻ SYDNEY
Australia by Peripitus courtesy Creative ❼ HELSINKI
Commons License. ④
❽ PERTH
⑩ AUCKLAND: Night panorama of
Auckland, New Zealand by Stas Kulesh ❾ ADELAIDE
courtesy Flickr / Creative Commons License. ❿ AUCKLAND
Compiled and designed by surface2air / surface2air.posterous.com, September 2011