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Bangalore | Amol.Gaitonde/Wikimedia
Cape Town | PZFUN/Wikimedia
Copenhagen | GuoJunjun/Wikimedia
Dubai | Alberto-g-rov/Wikimedia
Helsinki | Axilera/Wikimedia
Hong Kong | Lichunngai/Wikimedia
London
Medellin | DAIRO CORREA/Flickr
Munich | Thomas Wolf/Wikimedia
Rio de Janeiro | Halley Pacheco de Oliveira/Wikimedia
San Jose | Adam Schultz/Wikimedia
Santiago | Victor San Martin/Flickr
Seoul
Singapore | Ramir Borja/Wikimedia
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Vancouver | Magnus Larsson/Flickr
Vienna | Martin Ortner/Wikimedia
While B.C. may no longer be the self-designated best place on Earth, its crown jewel, Vancouver, is among the top centres of innovation. That’s according to the New Yorkers at Business Insider, who today released a list (available here) of the top 18 metros (seriously, who stops at 18?) using metrics, they say, such as patents per capita. Here’s what BI said about VanCity:
Vancouver, Canada, has set a mission to become the greenest city in the world by 2020, which has already lead to a 20% decrease in water consumption. Plus, 41% of people walk or bike to get around.
Aw, shucks. Granted, that last part’s not true—the 41 per cent number includes transit riders—but we’re not going to belabour the point. Click through the gallery above to see who else made the list (which, if we’re being totally honest, should probably be taken with 18 grains of salt).