Global cities index newest update 2014 (best, largest, population, people)
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In all seriousness, very interesting report. Gives perspective that "second tier" U.S. cities, for lack of a better term, rank/score higher than other countries' primate cities.
No Philadelphia on here sucks, though.
None of the CD favorites made it.
Where is Seattle, Austin, Portland, Asheville????? Let alone PHILLY. Do they not read this forum? Where are the super kewl hipster cities!?!
1. This is just one of many different rankings that claims to be the ultimate authority-yawns.
2. Usually the cities you listed usually make these kinds of rankings.
and if SF were ranked higher would you yawn?
at least you are predictable. Where SF does well scream to world where it may have dropped yawn
Either way it a very respectable score for SF. Honestly with many of these I dont alway understand - they apply quantitative metrics and score. To me SF seem odd dropping as the city may be as strong and have as much momentum as any and definitely as much it has ever had itself.
Personally I am curious where Philly would have ranked if evaluated but will never know unless they add it. seems like if could have at least broken through the top 84
for other cities like Seattle, imagine it would rank as well, larger GDP than probably 60% at least of these cities and very innovative in its economy - Seattle is actually catching places like Miami and Atlanta in GDP output. American cities do well and are economic monsters in the relative sense
Is it the airport that gets Atlanta the high marks? I think it should be replaced with Philly.
The airport, plus things like
a large, educated workforce
world class colleges and universities (Emory, Georgia Tech, the HBCs)
the CDC
relatively high concentration of corporate headquarters
seventh highest concentration of diplomatic missions in the U.S. (26)
professional resident companies in each major performing arts discipline
host of a summer Olympics
major tourist/convention destination
Since they're measuring business activity, human capital, information exchange, cultural experience, and political engagement, all of these things matter and Atlanta deserves its ranking. Philadelphia's lack of inclusion on this list is a huge oversight, however.
I spent some time overseas this summer, honestly, I actually do try to get inputs from people abroad on what direction they think America is going in and if they could see themselves living there one day and in every country where I've talked to people about this, there's always someone that says America is failing, is a failure, is corrupt, is broke, is going down. Almost always things like that.
With more cities consistently ranked on every single relevant ranking or study on Earth by minds that are "authorized" and "informed" to do such research, the United States is fortunate to have this sort of polarization. To put it this way, there's a major regional center with staggering affluence (by world standards) in every pocket or corner of the country (save for the northern Great Plains).
Look at a place like France. There is Paris, and then what? Every other city is a lightweight, fun places to see and vacation but not all that powerful. I'm just saying.
Last edited by Trafalgar Law; 08-24-2014 at 02:36 PM..
Sorry, thats what I meant. Those cities usually do NOT make these kinds of rankings.
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