World Cities 2004

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World cities map 2004

Results are derived from the activities of 80 leading firms providing advanced producer services across 315 cities worldwide (i.e. the input is 80 x 315 = 25,200 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

  • Toronto
  • Chicago
  • Madrid
  • Frankfurt
  • Milan
  • Amsterdam
  • Brussels
  • Sao Paulo
  • Los Angeles
  • Zurich
  • Sydney

Alpha-

  • Mexico City
  • Kuala Lumpur
  • Buenos Aires
  • San Francisco
  • Beijing
  • Shanghai
  • Seoul
  • Taipei
  • Melbourne
  • Bangkok
  • Jakarta
  • Dublin
  • Munich
  • Warsaw
  • Stockholm
  • Mumbai
  • Miami
  • Budapest

Beta+

  • Santiago
  • Moscow
  • Prague
  • Vienna
  • Düsseldorf
  • Barcelona
  • Johannesburg
  • Hamburg
  • Berlin

Beta

  • Washington DC
  • Luxembourg
  • Atlanta
  • Istanbul
  • Athens
  • Montreal
  • Dubai
  • Bogota
  • Rome
  • Lisbon
  • Cairo

Beta-

  • Caracas
  • Dallas
  • Auckland
  • Vancouver
  • Geneva
  • New Delhi
  • Boston
  • Houston
  • Rio de Janeiro

Gamma+

  • Oslo
  • Manila
  • Beirut
  • Helsinki
  • Copenhagen
  • Montevideo
  • Stuttgart
  • Lima
  • Bratislava
  • Philadelphia
  • Seattle
  • Tel Aviv
  • Bangalore
  • Bucharest

Gamma

  • Brisbane
  • Chennai
  • Cape Town
  • Minneapolis
  • Calgary
  • Manchester
  • Abu Dhabi
  • Detroit
  • Bristol
  • San Diego
  • Karachi

Gamma-

  • Birmingham
  • Perth
  • Port Louis
  • Nicosia
  • Cleveland
  • Rotterdam
  • Edinburgh
  • San José (Costa Rica)
  • Guangzhou
  • Guatemala City
  • Denver
  • Jeddah
  • Riyadh
  • San Salvador
  • Osaka
  • Quito

High Sufficiency

  • Lyon
  • Calcutta
  • Wellington
  • Adelaide
  • Ho Chi Minh City
  • Zagreb
  • Kiev
  • Charlotte
  • Sofia
  • Colombo
  • Baltimore
  • Amman
  • Hamilton (Bermuda)
  • Hanoi
  • Belfast
  • Cologne
  • Phoenix
  • Panama City
  • Glasgow
  • Tampa
  • Leeds
  • Cincinnati
  • Lille
  • Antwerp
  • Limassol
  • Pittsburgh
  • Guayaquil
  • Manama
  • Portland
  • Almaty
  • Labuan
  • Christchurch
  • Turin
  • Bordeaux
  • Casablanca
  • Kuwait
  • Dresden
  • Tunis
  • Malmo
  • Liverpool
  • St Louis
  • Guadalajara
  • Newcastle
  • Seville
  • Lagos
  • Southampton
  • Belgrade
  • Brasilia
  • Honolulu
  • San Jose (CA)

Sufficiency

  • Porto Alegre
  • Hannover
  • Dar es Salaam
  • Buffalo
  • Doha
  • Cardiff
  • Nassau
  • Indianapolis
  • Tallinn
  • Nairobi
  • Ljubljana
  • Strasbourg
  • Leipzig
  • Hyderabad
  • Santo Domingo
  • Lahore
  • New Orleans
  • Durban
  • Macau
  • Gaborone
  • Canberra
  • Valencia
  • Basel
  • Shenzhen
  • Bologna
  • Tehran
  • Riga
  • Ottawa
  • Marseille
  • Ruwi
  • Nottingham
  • Aberdeen
  • Sacramento
  • Lausanne
  • Kansas City
  • St Petersburg
  • Rochester (NY)
  • Tijuana
  • Harare
  • Genoa
  • La Paz
  • Kingston
  • Managua
  • Richmond
  • Edmonton
  • Vilnius
  • Medellin
  • Naples
  • Bilbao
  • Curitiba
  • Accra
  • Nagoya
  • Hartford (CT)
  • Kampala
  • Tashkent
  • Las Vegas
  • Bergen
  • Windhoek
  • Baku
  • Yokohama
  • Kyoto
  • Suva
  • Luanda
  • Reykjavik
  • Belo Horizonte
  • Islamabad
  • Utrecht
  • Norwich
  • Douala
  • Pretoria