Adelaide has been ranked the world's third most-liveable city, jumping up from eighth in the world last year, and leaping ahead of all other Australian cities on the world rankings.

Adelaide is behind only Auckland, New Zealand and Osaka, Japan as the world's most liveable city, according to the annual rankings of The Economist magazine.

*Rymill Park / Murlawirrapurka Park 14)*

Adelaide's rise is attributable, in part, to our success in keeping largely free of COVID-19 but the ranking statistics also give Adelaide high scores for infrastructure, stability and "culture and environment."

A large part of Adelaide's envious world reputation for our environment is the unique Park Lands which garland the city.

*King Rodney Park / Ityamai-itpina (Park 15) during Womadelaide festival, 2021*

This world recognition for Adelaide comes only days after the State Government's "Green Adelaide" announced a push to have Adelaide become only the second city in the world (behind London) to be declared a "National Park City".

*Touch football in Bullrush Park / Warnpangga (Park 10)*

Being a "National Park City" would not mean installing or converting your Park Lands into traditional 'National Parks' on the city's doorstep. According to the National Park City Foundation:

"A National Park City is inspired by the family of National Parks but is not the same as a National Park.

"Just like in a rural National Park, a National Park City consists of a landscape as well as a vision and a community of people working together to look after and improve it. Unlike a rural National Park, the National Park Cities will not always have a traditional single top-down authority. Instead, it has a community, partnership and a large number of contributors. This could become millions of people."

Your Adelaide Park Lands - as the central feature of this vision - would form a crucial component of Adelaide's bid to become a 'National Park City' and perhaps move Adelaide right to the top of the world rankings of most liveable cities.