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Which cities have the most heavy industry, IMO its the back bone of stable metropolitan economy, which is why a cities like DC, Atlanta, Orlando, Dallas, Phoenix, Austin etc.. will always feel like they're missing something.
Tier 1
NYC/NNJ
Tier 2
Chicago
Philly
Houston
Detroit
Out of the big cities anyway.
LA, SF, Seattle and Boston I don't know enough about to say
LA, SF, Seattle and Boston I don't know enough about to say
Does LA have a major manufacturing presence? I think they are ranked like 2nd in terms of manufacturing.
EDIT: From City Data:
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Los Angeles is the largest major manufacturing center in the United States, with 500,000 workers in manufacturing activities in 2003. The largest components are apparel (68,300 jobs), computer and electronic products (60,000 jobs), transportation products (54,600 jobs), fabricated metal products (49,900 jobs), food products (44,800 jobs), and furniture (27,400 jobs). The last few years have witnessed major economic expansion. The three-tiered, traditional economy (aerospace, entertainment, and tourism) has evolved into a well balanced, multi-tiered economic engine driven by unparalleled access to world markets.
Steel fabrication is the second largest industry in manufacturing, followed closely by fashion apparel. In the United States, only Detroit produces more automobiles than the Los Angeles area, a fitting statistic for the city with more cars per capita than any other in the world. The "big three" U.S. auto manufacturers, along with Honda, Mazda, Nissan, Toyota, Volkswagen, and Volvo, have all located design centers in Los Angeles. The manufacture of heavy machinery for the agricultural, construction, mining, and oil industries contributes significantly to the local economy. Los Angeles is also a major producer of furniture and fixtures, as well as petroleum products and chemicals, print material, rubber goods, electronic equipment, and glass, pottery, ceramics, and cement products.
Do you mean industrial as in "manufacturing" centers?
If that is what you meant then LA and Chicago are the largest, both of them are extremely blue collar and manufacturing is their special point. Think automobile production, shipping, exports, assembly lines, etc for LA and similar for Chicago. However Detroit is the most historically linked to industrial/manufacturing IMO. Look for Houston and Miami to surge as their ports will only get much busier.
New York, Philly, and Houston would round up the second half of that first tier with LA, Chicago, Detroit, New York, Houston, and Philly.
A second tier would have New Orleans, Dallas, Miami, and Oakland IMO
Does LA have a major manufacturing presence? I think they are ranked like 2nd in terms of manufacturing.
LA is a juggernaut in manufacturing, contrary to belief that all of LA is like Hollywood when most of its economy like Chicago's relies on manufacturing. Only New York is massive in manufacturing but not economically dependent on it as the other cities I mentioned in my post prior.
LA is a juggernaut in manufacturing, contrary to belief that all of LA is like Hollywood when most of its economy like Chicago's relies on manufacturing. Only New York is massive in manufacturing but not economically dependent on it as the other cities I mentioned in my post prior.
Screw Hollywood, LA has a large Manufacturing Industry and a huge Shipping industry. Those two provide zillions of jobs
I mean heavy industry like petrochemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing, smokestack cities that refine the most raw materials.
Houston has a good shot at the top tier then.
-Houston has more than 400 chemical manufacturing establishments
-The Houston-Gulf Coast region has nearly 40 percent of the U.S. capacity for base petrochemicals, ensuring rapid access to major resin producers and resin technologies.
-More than 235 establishments in the Houston metro area manufacture plastic and rubber products.
- Houston dominates the U.S. production of three major resins: polyethylene (38.7% of U.S. capacity); polyvinyl chloride (35.9% of U.S. capacity) and polypropylene (48.4% of U.S. capacity).
-Houston is one of the world’s largest manufacturing centers for petrochemicals, the petrochemical complex at the Houston Ship Channel is the largest in the country.
-Houston has two of four largest U.S. refineries. ExxonMobil’s complex in Baytown is one of the oldest in the area and one of the largest of its kind in the world
-Metals manufacturing is a $12.0 billion industry in Houston, with nearly 2,100 establishments employing more than 67,000 workers in the region
-Houston is home to more than 10,700 manufacturing establishments. The city ranked as a Gold Medal World-Class Community for Manufacturing for four consecutive years by Industry Week magazine
- Th area also is huge in synthetic rubber, insecticides, and fertilizer manufacturing.
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Houston is also a world leader in the chemical industry, with nearly 40 percent of the nation's capacity for producing the basic chemicals that are used by downstream chemical operations. The Houston-Baytown-Huntsville area is home to 405 chemical plants employing roughly 36,000 people. With an extensive infrastructure that includes the world's most elaborate pipeline network, Houston is a key production center for derivatives and specialty chemicals. Nearly every major chemical company operates a plant near Houston, including BASF AG, Bayer Corp., Chevron Phillips Chemical Co., E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co., ExxonMobil Chemical Co., and Shell Chemical LP.
It would be nice if you could narrow it down to Heavy Industry like the OP said he was looking for
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