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Global Power City Index, a ranking of 35 of the world’s top cities by the Institute for Urban Strategies at The Mori Memorial Foundation in Tokyo.
According to the institute, “as half of the people of the world are living in cities, it is necessary to create attractive urban space to pull the people, goods, and money, those who are moving borderless, and to pursue the enjoyable and livable environment.” The index, which is the first of its kind out of Japan, aims to judge the comprehensive power of a city.
The ranking is based on six overall objective factors, "Economy," "Research & Development," "Cultural Interaction," "Livability," "Ecology & Natural Environment," and "Accessibility," with 69 individual indicators among them. The institute also expanded its study by looking at the cities from the subjective perspective of five different ‘actors’ (or types of people who influence cities): global “Managers," "Researchers," "Artists," "Visitors," and local "Residents."
While the institute’s research is aimed largely at finding ways to improve Tokyo’s future, it strived to maintain a fairness in city rankings. The Global Power City Index, which is in its second year of ranking cities, was released on October 22 2009(JST).
1. New York City
2. London
3. Paris
4. Tokyo
5. Singapore
6. Berlin
7. Vienna
8. Amsterdam
9. Zurich
10. Hong Kong.
Other US cities.
13. Los Angeles
20. Boston
22. Chicago
24. San Francisco
Managers, Researchers, Artists, Visitors, and Residents, all have their own top world cities. A report called the Global Power City Index issued on October 22nd by the Institute for Urban Strategies at The Mori Memorial Foundation in Tokyo, ranked cities both objectively as well as subjectively. While the objective ranking looked at factors such as a city’s environment and accessibility, the subjective rankings were from the points of view of one local and four global ‘actors' - types of people who influences cities in general.
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The study looked at 35 different cities from around the world. New York was clearly the overall winner of the subjective categories
Top 10 cities for those related to business (“Managers” )
1. London
2. New York
3. Singapore
4. Hong Kong
5. Shanghai
6. Paris
7. Tokyo
8. Beijing
9. Zurich
10. Geneva
Top 10 cities for those related to science (“Researchers” )
1. New York
2. London
3. Tokyo
4. Paris
5. Seoul
6. Los Angeles
7. Boston
8. Singapore
9. Berlin
10. Chicago
Top 10 cities for those related to the arts (“Artists”)
1. New York
2. Paris
3. Berlin
4. London
5. Tokyo
6. Chicago
7. Vienna
8. Los Angeles
9. Amsterdam
10. Madrid
Top 10 Cities for those not from that city (“Visitors")
1. New York
2. London
3. Paris
4. Beijing
5. Shanghai
6. Vienna
7. Tokyo
8. Berlin
9. Singapore
10. Hong Kong
Top 10 Cities for those who live in that city (“Residents," only local ‘actor’)
1. New York
2. Paris
3. Berlin
4. Tokyo
5. London
6. Amsterdam
7. Zurich
8. Vienna
9. Copenhagen
10. Vancouver
Top 35 I colored them by continent..
1. New York
2. London
3. Paris
4. Tokyo
5. Singapore
6. Berlin
7. Vienna
8. Amsterdam
9. Zurich
10. Hong Kong
11. Madrid
12. Seoul
13. Los Angeles
14. Sydney
15. Toronto
16. Frankfurt
17. Copenhagen
18. Brussels
19. Geneva
20. Boston
21. Shanghai
22. Chicago
23. Vancouver
24. San Francisco
25. Osaka
26. Beijing
27. Kuala Lumpur
28. Milan
29. Bangkok
30. Fukuoka
31. Taipei
32. Moscow
33. Sao Paulo
34. Mumbai
35. Cairo
Leaving the article up for interesting reading purposes, but we're not comparing North American cities to other cities (other than older grandfathered-in threads that won't die) per: //www.city-data.com/forum/city-...e-posting.html
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