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. See a PDF version here: [new link]

The attached Slideshare presentations and documents associated with this project is an update version of the Infographic with a correction in text added. The second document is an image pictorial featuring the top ten most liveable cities identified in the Economic Intelligence Unit survey for 2011.