World Cities 2000

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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
  • Shenzhen
  • 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