


The ones making life better both for us and for our grandkids.Īnd here are the results: the best cities in the world in 2021. We were after the cities that were not only thinking about the now, but also the future. We wanted to find out which cities really stepped up and pulled together this year. So we asked you not just about food and culture, as we always do, but also community projects, green space and sustainability. So, once again, we launched the Time Out Index: a poll of 27,000 city-dwellers from Melbourne to Madrid, Chicago to Copenhagen and Tel Aviv to Tokyo. Now many of us have emerged from lockdowns and are taking tentative steps back towards semi-normality, we thought it was time to recognise all the great things our cities have achieved over the past 18 months. And – somehow – we even found ways to have fun. We fought to help our businesses survive. And these being big, sprawling metropolises, it’d be easy to feel a bit hemmed in when you can do little else but hang out in your flat.īut there you’d be wrong. During lockdowns, much of the fun and culture and social life that define urban living are off the table.

You’d think a pandemic might defeat the point of living in a city.
