World cities map 2000
Results are derived from the activities of 100 leading firms providing advanced producer services across 315 cities worldwide (i.e. the input is 100 x 315 = 31,500 pieces of information). The results should be interpreted as indicating the importance of cities as nodes in the world city network (i.e. enabling corporate globalisation).
Alpha++
- London
- New York
Alpha+
- Hong Kong
- Paris
- Tokyo
- Singapore
Alpha
- Chicago
- Milan
- Los Angeles
- Toronto
- Madrid
- Amsterdam
- Sydney
- Frankfurt
- Brussels
- Sao Paulo
- San Francisco
Alpha-
- Mexico City
- Zurich
- Taipei
- Mumbai
- Jakarta
- Buenos Aires
- Melbourne
- Miami
- Kuala Lumpur
- Stockholm
- Bangkok
- Prague
- Dublin
- Shanghai
- Barcelona
- Atlanta
Beta+
- Moscow
- Istanbul
- Beijing
- Washington DC
- Auckland
- Warsaw
- Vienna
- Seoul
- Lisbon
- Johannesburg
- Copenhagen
- Budapest
- Manila
Beta
- Montreal
- Hamburg
- Munich
- Düsseldorf
- Berlin
- New Delhi
- Rome
- Dubai
- Bogota
- Athens
- Santiago
- Caracas
- Cairo
- Boston
Beta-
- Dallas
- Houston
- Luxembourg
- Beirut
- Vancouver
- Oslo
- Geneva
- Seattle
Gamma+
- Rio de Janeiro
- Helsinki
- Montevideo
- Brisbane
- Denver
- Stuttgart
- Philadelphia
- Rotterdam
- Minneapolis
- Panama City
- Perth
- Lima
- Bangalore
- St Louis
- Bucharest
- Karachi
Gamma
- Detroit
- Wellington
- Calcutta
- Ho Chi Minh City
- Manama
- Jeddah
- Tel Aviv
- Cologne
- Lyon
- Cape Town
- Riyadh
- Antwerp
- Adelaide
- San Diego
- Nairobi
- Quito
- Manchester
- Chennai
Gamma-
- Hamilton
- Calgary
- Portland
- Nassau
- Birmingham
- Charlotte
- Guangzhou
- Casablanca
- Cleveland
- Port Louis
- Bratislava
- Indianapolis
- Kiev
- Abu Dhabi
- Kuwait
- Nicosia
- Kansas City
- Pittsburgh
- Sofia
High Sufficiency
- Zagreb
- Lagos
- Amman
- Guayaquil
- Ruwi
- Osaka
- Monterrey
- Bilbao
- Guatemala City
- Abidjan
- Valencia
- Harare
- Bristol
- Baltimore
- Asuncion
- Leeds
- Glasgow
- San José (Costa Rica)
- Marseille
- Phoenix
- Tunis
- Almaty
- St Petersburg
- Edinburgh
- Colombo
- Hanoi
- Cincinnati
- Accra
- Santo Domingo
- Tampa
- Dhaka
- San Salvador
- Riga
- Lusaka
- Lahore
- Dresden
- Strasbourg
- Columbus
- San Jose (CA)
- Leipzig
- Rochester
- Labuan
- Islamabad
- Durban
Sufficiency
- Porto Alegre
- Guadalajara
- Belo Horizonte
- Windhoek
- Palo Alto
- Lille
- La Paz
- Kampala
- Hartford
- Gothenburg
- Tallin
- Doha
- Richmond
- Vilnius
- Buffalo
- Kingston
- Bordeaux
- Christchurch
- Honolulu
- Ljubljana
- Belfast
- Edmonton
- Curitiba
- Limassol
- Nottingham
- Turin
- Winnipeg
- Tegucigalpa
- Ottawa
- Dar es Salaam
- Hobart
- Las Vegas
- Basel
- Nürnberg
- Shenzen
- Seville
- Maputo
- Tehran
- Malmo
- Utrecht
- Dakar
- Newcastle
- Liverpool
- Medellin
- New Orleans
- Baku
- Hannover
- Bologna
- Aberdeen
- Canberra
- Lausanne
- Sacramento
- Southampton
- The Hague
- Bandar Seri Begawan
- Doula
- Salvador
- Omaha
- Gaborone
- Port of Spain
- Managua
- Bern