World Cities 2008

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World cities map 2008

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Results are derived from the activities of 175 leading firms providing advanced producer services across 526 cities worldwide (i.e. the input is 175 x 526 = 92,050 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
  • Singapore
  • Tokyo
  • Sydney
  • Milan
  • Shanghai
  • Beijing

Alpha

  • Madrid
  • Moscow
  • Seoul
  • Toronto
  • Brussels
  • Buenos Aires
  • Mumbai
  • Kuala Lumpur
  • Chicago

Alpha-

  • Warsaw
  • Sao Paulo
  • Zurich
  • Amsterdam
  • Mexico City
  • Jakarta
  • Dublin
  • Bangkok
  • Taipei
  • Istanbul
  • Rome
  • Lisbon
  • Frankfurt
  • Stockholm
  • Prague
  • Vienna
  • Budapest
  • Athens
  • Caracas
  • Los Angeles
  • Auckland
  • Santiago

Beta+

  • Washington DC
  • Melbourne
  • Johannesburg
  • Atlanta
  • Barcelona
  • San Francisco
  • Manila
  • Bogota
  • Tel Aviv
  • New Delhi
  • Dubai
  • Bucharest

Beta

  • Oslo
  • Berlin
  • Helsinki
  • Geneva
  • Copenhagen
  • Riyadh
  • Hamburg
  • Cairo
  • Luxembourg
  • Bangalore
  • Dallas
  • Kuwait
  • Boston

Beta-

  • Munich
  • Jeddah
  • Miami
  • Lima
  • Kiev
  • Houston
  • Guangzhou
  • Beirut
  • Karachi
  • Düsseldorf
  • Sofia
  • Montevideo
  • Nicosia
  • Rio de Janeiro
  • Ho Chi Minh City

Gamma+

  • Montreal
  • Nairobi
  • Bratislava
  • Panama City
  • Chennai
  • Brisbane
  • Casablanca
  • Denver
  • Quito
  • Stuttgart
  • Vancouver
  • Zagreb
  • Manama
  • Guatemala City
  • Cape Town
  • San José (Costa Rica)
  • Minneapolis
  • Santo Domingo
  • Seattle

Gamma

  • Ljubljana
  • Shenzhen
  • Perth
  • Calcutta
  • Guadalajara
  • Antwerp
  • Philadelphia
  • Rotterdam
  • Amman
  • Portland
  • Lagos

Gamma-

  • Detroit
  • Manchester
  • Wellington
  • Riga
  • Guayaquil
  • Edinburgh
  • Porto
  • San Salvador
  • St Petersburg
  • Tallinn
  • Port Louis
  • San Diego
  • Islamabad
  • Birmingham (UK)
  • Doha
  • Calgary
  • Almaty
  • Columbus

High Sufficiency

  • Adelaide
  • Colombo
  • Lahore
  • Tegucigalpa
  • Vilnius
  • Phoenix
  • Hyderabad (India)
  • Cleveland
  • Glasgow
  • Dhaka
  • Monterrey
  • Tampa
  • San Juan
  • Hanoi
  • Tunis
  • Lyon
  • Leeds
  • La Paz
  • Kansas City
  • Pittsburgh
  • Orlando
  • Belgrade
  • Charlotte
  • Osaka
  • Asuncion
  • Indianapolis
  • Canberra
  • George Town (Cayman Islands)
  • Accra
  • Managua
  • Bristol
  • Bologna
  • Baltimore
  • Nassau
  • St Louis
  • Ottawa
  • Cologne

Sufficiency

  • Lausanne
  • Medellin
  • Sacramento
  • Milwaukee
  • San Jose (CA)
  • Richmond
  • Las Vegas
  • Christchurch
  • Memphis
  • Hamilton (Bermuda)
  • Jerusalem
  • Belfast
  • Chengdu
  • Krakow
  • Hartford
  • Porto Alegre
  • Pune
  • Nashville
  • Basel
  • Honolulu
  • Dar es Salaam
  • Omaha
  • Raleigh
  • Newcastle
  • Lusaka
  • Reykjavik
  • Macao
  • Durban
  • Valencia
  • Curitiba
  • Leipzig
  • Aberdeen
  • Dresden
  • Marseille
  • Cali
  • Baku
  • Liverpool
  • Ankara
  • Tianjin
  • Penang
  • Salt Lake City
  • Gaborone
  • Muscat
  • Nagoya
  • Austin
  • Harare
  • Winnipeg
  • Puebla
  • Nanjing
  • Kaohsiung City
  • Tashkent
  • Dalian
  • Southampton
  • Tijuana
  • Tulsa
  • Seville
  • Edmonton
  • Rochester
  • Skopje
  • Strasbourg
  • Kingston (Jamaica)
  • Halifax
  • Labuan
  • Genoa
  • Utrecht
  • Birmingham (AL)
  • Bremen
  • Cincinnati
  • Johor Baharu
  • Tbilisi
  • Nantes
  • Cardiff
  • Hannover
  • Arhus
  • Abu Dhabi
  • New Orleans
  • Turin
  • Libreville
  • Chihuahua
  • Quebec

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