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In Montclairs world, the relative statistical parity between San Francisco, Boston, and Philly=a slam dunk victory for SF. But; the merciless smackdown SF gets from NYC, London, Paris (and L.A.) on the exact same statistical categories somehow means that SF is superior to Paris, et al.
That's because Bay Area posters--and posters from any city, really--have no problem lording their alleged superiority over other cities. But when it comes to NYC, it's "no fair!" Why should we be deprived of the joy of giving a beatdown?
The following posters should just be embarrassed at this point:
18montclair
BajanYankee
qworldorder
OyCrumbler
The last 48 pages have been just from the past week and have been the most childish online tit for tat I have personally ever not read. If you guys seriously don't have jobs, I hate to say it, but the rather idiotic and often violent protests occurring in major cities throughout the US would be more productive than sitting around here and posting on this thread on C-D.
I'm pretty happy about this. Please, cite what I've said that's unreasonable.
I'm pretty happy about this. Please, cite what I've said that's unreasonable.
I literally don't have the time or desire to read. I check in occasionally and see a bunch of YouTube posts by New York posters, a bunch of stuff on AT Kearney, and a bunch of random stats from 18Montclair. All of it meaningless, dull, and boring to myself. Unreasonable is a different thing...I'd rather a discussion be controversial and unreasonable, but interesting and informative, than totally reasonable and boring. As this one has been.
1. New York (61.7) *Yay!*
2. London (58.1)
3. Paris (52.3)
4. Tokyo (47.2)
5. Hong Kong (41.3)
6. Los Angeles (38.0)
7. Chicago (36.8)
8. Beijing (35.1)
9. Singapore (34.3)
10. Washington (33.4)
11. Brussels (32.9)
12. Seoul (32.6)
13. Toronto (32.4)
14. Sydney (32.3)
15. Madrid (31.8)
16. Vienna (30.3)
17. Moscow (29.5)
18. Shanghai (29.4)
19. Berlin (29.4)
20. Buenos Aires (28.9)
21. Boston (28.6) 22. San Francisco (27.2)
23. Frankfurt (26.7)
24. Barcelona (26.7)
25. Amsterdam (26.3)
That's neither about power nor influence, like this:
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THE WORLD'S MOST WELL ROUNDED CITIES by GaWC
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 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
You dont get it. I dont need to prove that we're above NYC, only that SF ranks close behind, and boy are there a lot of those. Here's yet another recent one:
I literally don't have the time or desire to read. I check in occasionally and see a bunch of YouTube posts by New York posters, a bunch of stuff on AT Kearney, and a bunch of random stats from 18Montclair. All of it meaningless, dull, and boring to myself. Unreasonable is a different thing...I'd rather a discussion be controversial and unreasonable, but interesting and informative, than totally reasonable and boring. As this one has been.
The following posters should just be embarrassed at this point:
You forgot one.
There. Fixed it.
Quote:
18Montclair
Bajan Yankee
qworldorder
OyCrumbler Yo Momma
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