What Is Livability? A Field Report from Melbourne

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What makes a city livable? I went to Melbourne, Australia to find out.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/08/trump...
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https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/pengu...

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Sea Life Aquarium By Shkuru Afshar - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Australian flag By Unknown(Vector graphics image by Ian Fieggen) (only minor code changes by uploader.) - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
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UK flag Public Domain, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...
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Melbourne metro map By Gracchus250 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

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