Do You Think LA Will Ever Join The "Big Four" (live in, ranking)

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Originally Posted by Mr. Zero

Most of the studies and indices rank New York, London, Tokyo and Paris as the top four 'Global Cities'. There are some variations in the rankings after the top two cities, where all of rankings list New York and London as number one and number two, respectively.

Global city - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

They're fighting for financial capital of the world.

[SOON2BNSURPRISE]

Originally Posted by MrIDontKnow

Do you ever think LA will join the "Big Four?"

The "Big Four" consists of...

Tokyo
New York City
London
Paris

They are known as the "world's biggest and best cities."

Will you ever see LA in the "Big Four."

Not sure what makes them the biggest. I looked up a list of the biggest cities:

1. Tokyo Japan
2. Jakarta Indonesia
3. Seoul South Korea
4. Delhi India

London and New York are on the list but Paris is not listed at all.

[Mr. Zero]

Originally Posted by SOON2BNSURPRISE

Not sure what makes them the biggest. I looked up a list of the biggest cities:

1. Tokyo Japan
2. Jakarta Indonesia
3. Seoul South Korea
4. Delhi India

London and New York are on the list but Paris is not listed at all.

It's heavily weighted towards economic activity and not actual physical size or population. Here are some of the descriptions from the studies mentioned earlier, along with the NY / London / Paris / Tokyo / LA Rankings.

GaWC study: "A roster of world cities was outlined in the GaWC Research Bulletin 5 and ranked cities based on their connectivity through four "advanced producer services": accountancy, advertising, banking/finance, and law... The 2004 rankings acknowledged several new indicators while continuing to rank city economics more heavily than political or cultural factors."

New York: Alpha ++
London: Alpha ++
Paris: Alpha +
Tokyo: Alpha +
LA: Alpha


Global Cities Index: "In 2008, the American journal Foreign Policy, in conjunction with the Chicago-based consulting firm A.T. Kearney and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, published a ranking of global cities ... Foreign Policy noted that "the world’s biggest, most interconnected cities help set global agendas, weather transnational dangers, and serve as the hubs of global integration. They are the engines of growth for their countries and the gateways to the resources of their regions."

New York: 1
London: 2
Paris: 3
Tokyo: 4
LA: 6

Global Power City Index: "The ranking is based on six overall categories, "Economy", "Research & Development", "Cultural Interaction", "Livability", "Environment", and "Accessibility", with 70 individual indicators among them".

New York: 2
London: 1
Paris: 3
Tokyo: 4
LA: 23

Global City Competitiveness Index: "In 2012, the Economist Intelligence Unit (The Economist Group), ranked the competitiveness of global cities according to their demonstrated ability to attract capital, businesses, talent and visitors."

New York: 1
London: 2
Paris: 4
Tokyo: 6
LA: 19

[Tiller77]

Agree that LA haven't so great public transportation, but c'mon it's 21 century today. I think better drive your car and use several lines, than get 100500 buses, subway and narrow SF streets

[Chicano3000X]

Originally Posted by Tiller77

Agree that LA haven't so great public transportation, but c'mon it's 21 century today. I think better drive your car and use several lines, than get 100500 buses, subway and narrow SF streets

Then your putting the car before the person. That was the big mistake in the first place for L.A.

Cars were really just an over used medium of travel. We still need Public transit because getting around in a car in a city is pain. Cars aren't the future making public transit the past. Cars were an addition, but should not be considered a replacement. That was the mentality before and look how far back it set us..

[PDF]

Originally Posted by Tiller77

Agree that LA haven't so great public transportation, but c'mon it's 21 century today. I think better drive your car and use several lines, than get 100500 buses, subway and narrow SF streets

Public transit is actually more relevant these days.

[18Montclair]

Originally Posted by MrIDontKnow

Do you ever think LA will join the "Big Four?"

The "Big Four" consists of...

Tokyo
New York City
London
Paris

They are known as the "world's biggest and best cities."

Will you ever see LA in the "Big Four."

Los Angeles is definitely already in that group as far as I'm concerned.

The Los Angeles Area has millions more people and a larger economy than both Paris and London. In fact based on a study I did in 2010, Los Angeles has the 3rd largest urban economy in the world behind only Tokyo and New York. The regional economy of LA should surpass $1 Trillion next year or the year after. That is astounding and very impressive.

Los Angeles is home to a higher concentration of billionaires, ultra high net worth individuals than both Paris and London, at least according to Forbes and Wealth-X.

Los Angeles is the dominant hub of transportation, trade and commerce for the entire Western half of North America.

As far as being a magnet for the world, Los Angeles has 5 million+ foreign born residents, as far as I know only New York has more in the world.

And even after all of that, we still haven't even begun to talk about the myriad of ways in which Los Angeles is omnipresent in global media. I doubt very seriously that Tokyo, Paris and London are as prevalent on television and movie screens around the world as Los Angeles is.

[munchitup]

Originally Posted by PDF

Public transit is actually more relevant these days.

I agree, and most Angelinos do too. This is one area of the country which the citizens gladly impose taxes on themselves to improve mobility, in a variety of ways.

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Probably not

[BeauCharles]

Originally Posted by 18Montclair

The regional economy of LA should surpass $1 Trillion next year or the year after. That is astounding and very impressive.

What's even more impressive is the San Francisco Bay Area has two thirds the GDP of the LA region with less than half the population.

Los Angeles is home to a higher concentration of billionaires, ultra high net worth individuals than both Paris and London, at least according to Forbes and Wealth-X.

Bay Area's got more of those individuals than any of them.

Los Angeles is the dominant hub of transportation, trade and commerce for the entire Western half of North America.

And the Bay Area's a close second and if you count high tech and venture capital there's no contest. In the "New World Order" of tech, innovation and information San Francisco, San Mateo County and Santa Clara County are a lot more important.