impact on chicago going from #3 to #4 in terms of population total? none. i believe this has been covered before. malignant population numbers create an impact? on what? were the #2 financial buisness center outside NYC in the us and somehow population total affects this? chicago is the nations commodities exchange command center. also the nations airline and rail transportation hub. chi also ranks 4th GDP worldwide, and is an alpha+ rated city. LA places higher with #3 gdp worldwide, has a higher population, but still rated as an alpha city same as dc and san fran. houston currently holds a beta+ rating, not bad, but it still has a ways to go even if poulation total city proper to city proper is more. to underscore again population numbers has 0 nothing nada to do with a cities importance. my family comes from metro manila a city of 20 million yet its only rated the same as houston at beta+... more likely its what the people are doing in that city with their jobs that affect or help other people elsewhere that determine a cities importance.
one may say ah to hell with global rankings theyre just as meaningless as population totals.... ha think again... the rankings are based on criteria such as economic, cultural, political, infrastructural aspects. this is from wikipedia - "A
global city (also called
world city or sometimes
alpha city or
world center) is a
city generally considered to be an important node in the
global economic system. The concept comes from
geography and
urban studies and rests on the idea that
globalization can be understood as largely created, facilitated, and enacted in strategic geographic locales according to a hierarchy of importance to the operation of the global system of finance and trade."
so again how does a higher population total create a city of greater significance?
if somehow houston population went to #1 ahead of nyc would that make it the usa flagship city? nope!
if houston went to #2 spot ahead of LA would that make h-town better than LA? not really.
im not trashin on houston, im sure its a great place. its just that population numbers are just that. numbers and nothing more.
livin here in chi 30 somethin years, ive yet to see some "impact" psychologically or any, from la goin to #2 spot. people here would view this thread as insignificant. but theyd sure be glad if you like deep dish pizza and rooted for the cubs lol.
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