{"id":6912,"date":"2010-10-09T00:07:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T16:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=6912"},"modified":"2010-10-09T00:07:45","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T16:07:45","slug":"kl-is-48th-most-global-cit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2010\/10\/09\/kl-is-48th-most-global-cit\/","title":{"rendered":"KL is 48th most global city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got this from Malaysian Insider&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themalaysianinsider.com\/malaysia\/article\/steep-drop-in-rankings-a-wake-up-call-for-kl\/\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">In terms of liveability, KL ranks just 79th out of 130 cities in the Economist Intelligence Unit\u2019s 2010 ranking of easiest places to live and was stagnant at 75th in the Mercer study of best places to live from 2006-2009.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The city also failed to make the list of the top 100 most innovative cities with strong cultural and human infrastructure and global links as assessed by Australian innovation consultancy firm 2thinknow.<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In terms of liveability, KL ranks just 79th out of 130 cities in the Economist Intelligence Unit\u2019s 2010 ranking of easiest places to live and was stagnant at 75th in the Mercer study of best places to live from 2006-2009.<br \/>\nThe city also failed to make the list of the top 100 most innovative cities with strong cultural and human infrastructure and global links as assessed by Australian innovation consultancy firm 2thinknow.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8230; The next few years will be critical for KL&#8217;s ambitions to be a world class city as the AT Kearney report notes that the gap between the top cities and those who rank at the \u201ctail\u201d end is increasing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">KL\u2019s 48th position puts it behind Bangkok \u2013 36 and Taipei \u2013 39 but slightly ahead of Manila \u2013 51, Jakarta \u2013 53 and Ho Chi Minh city \u2013 61.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">AT Kearney noted that global cities are the urban elite and are shaping the future with new deals and ideas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cGlobal cities are where you go to do business, yes, but also to see the greatest art, hear the greatest orchestras, learn the latest styles, eat the best food and study in the finest universities,\u201d said the report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThey have global corporations. But they also have think tanks, jazz bars and broadband.  In a word, they have clout.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/global-cities-ranking-graphic.png\" rel=\"lightbox[6912]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6917 aligncenter\" title=\"global-cities-ranking-graphic\" src=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/global-cities-ranking-graphic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"732\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got this from Malaysian Insider&#8217;s report: In terms of liveability, KL ranks just 79th out of 130 cities in the Economist Intelligence Unit\u2019s 2010 ranking of easiest places to live and was stagnant at 75th in the Mercer study of best places to live from 2006-2009. The city also failed to make the list of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-6912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}