Cities
Singapore is a city-state.
- Most livable cities —
- Economist Intelligence Unit: World's Most Livable Cities survey 2011: Singapore is ranked 4th on the Economist Intelligence Unit's Asia Most Livable City survey
- Singapore is ranked 1st in 201 on Gallup's Potential Net Migration Index.
- Singapore is ranked No. 1 for Asian expatriates in 2010 on ECA International’s Location Ratings Survey.
- Singapore is ranked the 15th most liveable city worldwide in the Monocle liveable city index.
- FutureBrand: Country Brand Index 2009, ranked 13 out of 102 brands (ranked 4 in the Asia-Pacific region)
- Best Country Brand – Conferences, ranked 3 out of 102 brands
- Best Country Brand – Easiest to do Business in, ranked 1 out of 102 brands
- Best Country Brand – Ideal for Business, ranked 2 out of 102 brands
- Best Country Brand – Shopping, ranked 1 out of 102 brands
- Most expensive cities —
- Economist Intelligence Unit: Cost of Living Survey 2009, ranked 10 out of 140 cities in the world (ranked 3 in Asia)
- ECA International: Cost of Living Survey (June 2011), ranked 36 out of more than 390 locations in the world (ranked 6th in Asia)
- Mercer: Worldwide Cost of Living Survey 2011, ranked 8 out of 143 countries
- Expatistan: Cost of life index for expats, June 2011, ranked 11 out of 137 cities
- Population of urban area: Ranked 63 (2011)
- Singapore ranked Asia’s top City of Opportunity and ninth amongst 26 cities worldwide by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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Famous quotes containing the word cities:
“The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It’s the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes.... It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.”
—Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908)
“Lord, how long?”
—Bible: Hebrew Isaiah, 6:11.
Asking how long will the chastisement of the people last. God replies, “Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, and the Lord have removed man far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.”