全球城市生活質量調查 維也納蟬聯榜首

Vienna is the best city in the world to live while war-torn Baghdad is the worst, a survey said Wednesday, putting Europe at the top of the rankings with Asia and Africa trailing.

The Austrian capital "retains the top spot as the city with the world's best quality of living," British consultancy firm Mercer said in its 2010 Quality of Living Survey.

Swiss cities Zurich and Geneva followed in second and third places respectively, while Vancouver in Canada and Auckland in New Zealand were joint fourth.

For its annual survey, Mercer assessed the quality of living in 221 cities worldwide, measuring them against New York with an index score of 100 points as the base city.

Vienna, which also took the number one spot last year, scored a total 108.6 points, while Baghdad scored the lowest with just 14.7 points.

European cities continued to dominate the top 25 cities in the survey, Mercer said, while Canadian cities also had a strong showing.

Among cities in Britain, London ranked number 39, Birmingham 55 and Glasgow 57.

In the United States, the highest ranking entry was Honolulu in 31st place, followed by San Francisco in 32nd.

Singapore was the top-scoring Asian city in 28th place, followed by Tokyo in 40th.

Baghdad ranked 221st, remaining at the bottom of the list. It was followed by Bangui in the Central African Republic, N'Djamena in Chad, Khartoum in Sudan and Tbilisi in Georgia.

Mercer also awarded cities eco rankings based on water availability and drinkability, waste removal, quality of sewage systems, air pollution and traffic congestion.

Calgary in Canada came top of this list, followed by Honolulu in second place and Ottawa and Helsinki in joint third place.

Port-au-Prince in Haiti ranked at the bottom of this table, Mercer said.

全球城市生活質量調查本週三出爐，維也納高居榜首，飽受戰爭之苦的巴格達排名墊底。歐洲城市在榜單中名列前茅，亞非城市排名靠後。

英國美世諮詢公司在“2010城市生活質量調查”中稱，奧地利首都維也納“再度獲選全球生活質量最佳城市”。

瑞士蘇黎世和日內瓦分列二、三位，加拿大溫哥華和新西蘭奧克蘭並列第四。

爲開展此次年度調查，美世公司評估了全球221個城市的生活質量，將這些城市與指數分值爲100分的基準城市紐約進行比較。

維也納以總分108.6分蟬聯榜首，巴格達得分墊底，僅爲14.7分。

美世公司稱，歐洲城市仍佔據榜單前25位，加拿大城市也有不俗表現。

英國參評城市中，倫敦位列第39，伯明翰和格拉斯哥分列第55和第57。

美國參選城市中，檀香山居首，位列第31，舊金山以一席之差緊隨其後。

新加坡市以第28名的成績位居亞洲城市之首。東京位居其後，排名第40。

巴格達排名再次墊底，此外，排在榜單倒數幾位的依次爲中非共和國首都班吉、乍得首都恩賈梅納、蘇丹首都喀土穆和格魯吉亞首都第比利斯。

美世公司還根據飲水的供應量和飲用性、垃圾處理能力、排污系統質量、空氣污染程度、交通堵塞狀況等因素對城市進行了生態排名。

加拿大卡爾加里位居生態城市榜單之首，檀香山屈居第二，渥太華和赫爾辛基並列第三。

海地首都太子港在生態城市榜單中排在最末。

Vocabulary:

war-torn：laid waste by war（受戰爭嚴重破壞的；飽受戰爭蹂躪的）