User:ZanderSchubert/World Cities
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An attempt to define and categorise world cities was made by the Globalization and World Cities Study Group and Network (GaWC), based primarily at Loughborough University in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. The roster was outlined in the GaWC Research Bulletin 5 [1] and ranked cities based on provision of "advanced producer services" such as accountancy, advertising, finance and law, by international corporations. The GaWC inventory identifies three levels of world cities and several sub-ranks. Note that this roster generally denotes cities in which there are offices of certain multinational companies providing financial and consulting services rather than other cultural, political, and economic centres. There is a schematic map GaWC cities at their website, [2].
Alpha: 10-12 points, Beta: 7-9 points, Gamma: 4-6 points, 'Delta' (my term, not theirs), 1-3 points
- 12 points: London, New York City, Paris, Tokyo
- 10 points: Chicago, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Milan, Singapore
- 9 points: San Francisco, Sydney, Toronto, Zürich
- 8 points: Brussels, Madrid, Mexico City, São Paulo
- 7 points: Moscow, Seoul
- 6 points: Amsterdam, Boston, Caracas, Dallas, Düsseldorf, Geneva, Houston, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Melbourne, Osaka, Prague, Santiago, Taipei, Washington, DC
- 5 points: Bangkok, Beijing, Montreal, Rome, Stockholm, Warsaw
- 4 points: Atlanta, Barcelona, Berlin, Budapest, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Miami, Minneapolis, Munich, Shanghai
- 3 points: Athens, Auckland, Dublin, Helsinki, Luxembourg, Lyon, Mumbai, New Delhi, Philadelphia, Rio de Janeiro, Tel Aviv, Vienna
- 2 points: Abu Dhabi, Almaty, Birmingham (UK), Bogotá, Bratislava, Brisbane, Bucharest, Cairo, Cleveland, Cologne, Detroit, Dubai, Ho Chi Minh City, Kiev, Lima, Lisbon, Manchester, Montevideo, Oslo, Riyadh, Rotterdam, Seattle, Stuttgart, The Hague, Vancouver
- 1 point: Adelaide, Antwerp, Arhus, Baltimore, Bangalore, Bologna, Brasília, Calgary, Cape Town, Colombo, Columbus, Dresden, Edinburgh, Genoa, Glasgow, Gothenburg, Guangzhou, Hanoi, Kansas City, Leeds, Lille, Marseille, Richmond, St. Petersburg, Tashkent, Tehran, Tijuana, Turin, Utrecht, Wellington
Please feel free to actually use one (or more) of these tables as a category boilerplate thingie.
| Global cities | |
| Amsterdam | Atlanta | Bangkok | Barcelona | Beijing | Berlin | Boston | Brussels | Budapest | Caracas | CHICAGO | Copenhagen | Dallas | Düsseldorf | FRANKFURT | Geneva | Hamburg | HONG KONG | Houston | Istanbul | Jakarta | Johannesburg | Kuala Lumpur | LONDON | LOS ANGELES | Madrid | Manila | Melbourne | Mexico City | Miami | MILAN | Minneapolis | Montreal | Moscow | Munich | NEW YORK | Osaka | PARIS | Prague | Rome | San Francisco | Santiago | São Paulo | Seoul | Shanghai | SINGAPORE | Stockholm | Sydney | Taipei | TOKYO | Toronto | Warsaw | Washington, DC | Zürich | |
| ALPHA Beta Gamma | |
| Global cities by continent | |
| Europe | Amsterdam | Barcelona | Berlin | Brussels | Budapest | Copenhagen | Düsseldorf | FRANKFURT | Geneva | Hamburg | LONDON | Madrid | MILAN | Moscow | Munich | PARIS | Prague | Rome | Stockholm | Warsaw | Zürich |
| The Americas | Atlanta | Boston | Caracas | CHICAGO | Dallas | Houston | LOS ANGELES | Mexico City | Miami | Minneapolis | Montreal | NEW YORK | San Francisco | Santiago | São Paulo | Toronto | Washington, DC |
| Asia | Bangkok | Beijing | HONG KONG | Istanbul | Jakarta | Kuala Lumpur | Manila | Osaka | Seoul | Shanghai | SINGAPORE | Taipei | TOKYO |
| The Rest of the World | Johannesburg | Melbourne | Sydney |
| ALPHA Beta Gamma | |

