Does having large big-name neon billboards indicate a city is truly a global city/financial hub?

[sulkiercupid]

Originally Posted by Tom Lennox 70

Speaking of large permanent signs though I have a problem with the Citgo logo in Boston at Fenway Park. CItgo is owned by Hugo Chavez in Venezuela but then Boston IS is a liberal city.

That flashing Citgo sign is etched into my memory as I was staying in a hotel across the road at Kenmore Square. I remember seeing another billboard at Fenway Park itself advocating gun control as well .

[GoldenTiger]

Nope. Las Vegas has a lot, but I don't consider it a global city or a financial hub.

[french user]

it seems to be more a specificity of very capitalistic places. In France, the billbords are reletively more resctricted then in the Anglo world or in Asia. Especially in the histrorical center of cities; Paris might be a world city there are not many of those giant adverts outside of the peripherique boulevard (ring highway that surrounda inner Paris). That would be true in many places in Europe.