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Let's say we take a look at GaWC and say that all of the Honorable Mention World Class Cities are the up and coming Cities that are evolving into Major Cities........ GAWC World Cities Ranking List 1.Columbus 2.Phoenix 3.Cleveland 4.Kansas City 5.Pittsburgh 6.Tampa 7.Orlando 8.Charlotte 9.Indianpolis 10.Baltimore 11.St. Louis 12.Sacramento 13.Milwaukee 14.Richmond 15.San Jose 16.Las Vegas 17.Memphis 18.Nashville 19.Raleigh 20.Omaha 21.Honolulu 22.Austin 23.Salt Lake City 24.Tulsa 25.Rochester 26.Birmingham 27.Cincinnati 28.New Orlands
I have no respect for the RANKINGS of GaWC Los Angeles is the third city in the world as far as GDP yet it and San Francisco were taken out of The Alpha Cities Ranking , and worst yet CLEVELAND was RANKED above San Jose , Charlotte , Austin , Salt Lake City ......and MEMPHIS was RANKED above NASHVILLE.
Let's say we take a look at GaWC and say that all of the Honorable Mention World Class Cities are the up and coming Cities that are evolving into Major Cities........ GAWC World Cities Ranking List 1.Columbus 2.Phoenix 3.Cleveland 4.Kansas City 5.Pittsburgh 6.Tampa 7.Orlando 8.Charlotte 9.Indianpolis 10.Baltimore 11.St. Louis 12.Sacramento 13.Milwaukee 14.Richmond 15.San Jose 16.Las Vegas 17.Memphis 18.Nashville 19.Raleigh 20.Omaha 21.Honolulu 22.Austin 23.Salt Lake City 24.Tulsa 25.Rochester 26.Birmingham 27.Cincinnati 28.New Orlands
I have no respect for the RANKINGS of GaWC Los Angeles is the third city in the world as far as GDP yet it and San Francisco were taken out of The Alpha Cities Ranking , and worst yet CLEVELAND was RANKED above San Jose , Charlotte , Austin , Salt Lake City ......and MEMPHIS was RANKED above NASHVILLE.
I think your assessment is pretty accurate. These rankings could be arbitrary because I believe Cincy should be ranked above Rochester. And San Jose could easily be above all of them. But it really depends on who is ranking the cities.
This is true, however Charlotte has one the Nation's top 25 Gross Domestic Products (KC does not).
FWIW, here is a list of America's top 25 GDPs posted originally by another poster.
Originally Posted by urbanactivistTX
2008 1) New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY $1,264,896 2) Los Angeles-Long Beach Santa Ana, CA $717,884 3) Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL-IN-WI $520,672 4) Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX $403,202 5) Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV $395,747 6) Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX $379,863 7) Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD $331,897 8) San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA $310,825 9) Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH $299,590 10) Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA $269,799 11) Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL $261,263 12) Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA $218,771 13) Detroit-Warren-Livonia, MI $200,856 14) Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI $193,947 15) Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ $187,431 16) San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA $169,325 17) Denver-Aurora-Broomfield, CO $150,810 18) San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA $146,687 19) Baltimore-Towson, MD $133,012 20) St. Louis, MO-IL $128,467 21) Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC $118,350 22) Pittsburgh, PA $114,707 23) Riverside-San Bernadino-Ontario, CA $113,080 24) Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, OR-WA $112,420 25) Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL $110,510
Keep in mind that KC's 2 million metro has nearly 8,000 sq/mi of land. Charlotte's metro of nearly 2.4 million has 6,500 sq/mi of land.
Being that Charlotte is builing light rail transit and high rise condo towers (30 floors tall or better) faster than KC, it is safe to say that Charlotte is on its way to being "more major" than KC (in MANY ways, Charlotte already is "more major"). Even Charlotte's UA (urbanized area) is quickly catching up to older cities like KC. In all honesty, KC benefits from being an older city when it comes to having MLB. Today, KC would NEVER be considered for MLB over cities like Charlotte.
What the h e double hockey sticks are you talking about at the end?
Any city with transit-oriented development will grow. Sprawling subdevelopments no longer sell. Those areas have reached their peak- transplants who are appealed by sprawl and cheap mcmansions have already gone. There is no reason to ever think a statistical trend will continue, especially regarding growth.
This recent economic situation is not an anomaly. It means no more McMansions. No more financing to build stipmalls, and no more reason to think a stripmall could fuel growth. The money doesnt exist, and people arent interested in soulless sprawl. Even if sweathogs who love their sprawl and have no ecological concerns wanted it, there is little financing for good projects, much less endless suburban expansion.
The cities that will grow are ones that are already established and dense with public transit infrastructures that can be remodeled and expanded upon. Former industrial centers come to mind.
People on here love to talk about development, development, development. But drive down I-55 from Chicago towards Joliet and Plainfield. There are massive, and largely empty subdivisions. These trends in suburban growth were a product of not only a financial, but also a social and ecological bubble.
Columbus has the Blue Jackets and Crew, smart guy.
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