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*Yawn* My friend Shawn and I--you may know Shawn...he grew up in Brooklyn--couldn't have our suits custom made by Tom Ford or any of the top designers if we lived in San Francisco.
oh wow...NYC has the most office locations.* blank stare*
The one and only time GAWC actually weighed influence, here were the results:
THE WORLD'S MOST WELL ROUNDED CITIES by GaWC released in 2004
Quote:
Five levels of global city are identified. First, and clearly above all others, there are London and New York. All
previous research has highlighted the dominance of these two cities in the world city hierarchy (Taylor 2004a)
and they emerge here as the most important 'all-round' global contributors. They are followed by three cities that
make smaller all-round contribution and with particular cultural strengths: Los Angeles, Paris and [color=red]San Francisco.
Finally, among 'all-rounders' there are seven incipient world cities identified in Table 11. In the second category
of global niche cities, the three leading Pacific Asian cities are critical economic nodes in the world city network
and there are also three critical nodes that are non-economic: Brussels, Geneva and Washington, DC. Thus a
total of 18 cities are deemed to be global, actual or incipient.
The remaining world cities encompass articulator and niche cities. The former are focussed upon subnets and
there are 13 distributed between the three non-economic spheres. Classic examples are Vienna at the centre of a
UN agency subnet and Nairobi at the centre of a NGO subnet. There are 21niche world cities identified of which
seven have important concentrations of economic activities and 14 concentrations of non-economic activities.
Frankfurt is typical of the first group with its concentration of banks while Manila is typical of the second group
with its concentration of NGOs.
These two sets of cities represent the upper echelons of the hierarchical tendencies in world city networks. To
reiterate a point made in the introduction, they do not encompass all globalization processes, all cities as so
involved, but they are the key locales that network formation agents are using in their everyday activities that are
creating world city networks.
GLOBAL CITIES
Well rounded global
Very large contribution: London and New York Smaller contribution and with cultural bias: Los Angeles, Paris and
San Francisco
ii Incipient global cities: Amsterdam, Boston, Chicago, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Toronto
Global niche cities - specialised global contributions
i Economic: Hong Kong, Singapore, and Tokyo
ii Political and social: Brussels, Geneva, and Washington
WORLD CITIES
Subnet articulator cities
i Cultural: Berlin, Copenhagen, Melbourne, Munich, Oslo, Rome, Stockholm Political: Bangkok, Beijing, Vienna
ii Social: Manila, Nairobi, Ottawa
Worldwide leading cities
i Primarily economic global contributions: Frankfurt, Miami, Munich, Osaka, Singapore, Sydney, Zurich
ii Primarily non-economic global contributions: Abidjan, Addis Ababa, Atlanta, Basle, Barcelona, Cairo, Denver,
Harare, Lyon, Manila, Mexico City, Mumbai, New Delhi, Shanghai
oh wow...NYC has the most office locations.* blank stare*
The one and only time GAWC actually weighed influence, here were the results:
THE WORLD'S MOST WELL ROUNDED CITIES by GaWC released in 2004
And that was 2004. Before the rise of social media and ios/ android.
WOW...*snickers*
And in 2012, after the rise of social media, San Francisco was still ranked three full tiers underneath NYC along with the likes of Jakarta, Atlanta and Kuala Lumpur. That's a huge pat on the back for da Bay, though. You guys started from the bottom. Now you're here!
Boston actually outranks SF in the Global Cities index. San Francisco has about as much political engagement as Miami.
Manhattan is home to more than 900 fashion houses. Calvin Klein, Ann Taylor, Kate Spade, Vera Wang, Donna Karan, Tom Ford, Ralph Lauren, Oscar de la Renta, Tory Burch, Anna Sui, Kenneth Cole, Marc Jacobs, John Varvatos, Brooks Brothers and Michael Kors are only the tip of the iceberg.
You all sound like kids on a school yard playground..."Oh yeah, well MY................." I'm embarrassed for you.
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