{"id":32915,"date":"2021-06-09T10:04:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T01:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/09\/worlds-most-liveable-city-auckland-wins-as-covid-shakes-up-rankings"},"modified":"2021-06-09T19:59:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T10:59:00","slug":"worlds-most-liveable-city-auckland-wins-as-covid-shakes-up-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32915","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s most liveable city: Auckland wins as Covid shakes up rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Previous first-place holder Vienna fell out of the top 10 as cities in New Zealand, Australia and Japan fared best in rankings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Covid-19 pandemic has shaken up the Economist Intelligence Unit\u2019s annual ranking of most liveable cities, propelling Auckland to the top spot in place of Vienna, which crashed out of the top 10 altogether as the island nations of New Zealand, Australia and Japan fared best.<\/p>\n<p>The Austrian capital <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2019\/sep\/04\/worlds-most-liveable-cities-viennas-win-leaves-sydney-and-melbourne-in-a-spin\">had led the list since 2018<\/a> and for years ran neck and neck with Melbourne at the top of the survey of 140 urban centres. New Zealand\u2019s elimination of Covid-19 within its borders, through lockdown measures helped by its geographic isolation, gave its cities a big boost.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/09\/worlds-most-liveable-city-auckland-wins-as-covid-shakes-up-rankings\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous first-place holder Vienna fell out of the top 10 as cities in New Zealand, Australia and Japan fared best in rankingsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Covid-19 pandemic has shaken up the Economist Intelligence Uni&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,858,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-auckland","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32946,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32915\/revisions\/32946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}