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Put away your 1960s travel guide.
by Pommo88 2y ago
Put away your 1960s travel guide.
- archagon 2y agoAccording to GaWC's 2024 city classification, London and NYC are the only "Alpha++" cities in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization_and_World_Cities_Research_Network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization_and_World_Cities... Subjectively, I visited London twice over the last year and it felt fun and bustling.
- Pommo88 2y ago[flagged]
- cherry_tree 2y ago>The Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) is a British think tank that studies the relationships between world cities in the context of globalization. It is based in the geography department of Loughborough University in Leicestershire, United Kingdom I had to wonder why London would rated be above Tokyo and I had my answer immediately.
- archagon 2y agoWhy would Tokyo be rated higher than London in the globalization index? (Asking honestly.)
- cherry_tree 2y agoWell two posts ago you said London was one of the world’s great cities. Not that it was the most open to economic globalization which is a vastly different point to try to make. The first two sentences of the wiki reveal both the British nature of the publication and its focus not on great cities but on measuring how large cities are open to investment and trade from foreign markets. This is as close to approaching no one’s definitions of a great city as I am aware.
- tim333 2y agoHere's a Vancouver based one putting London top https://www.worldsbestcities.com/rankings/worlds-best-cities/ https://www.worldsbestcities.com/rankings/worlds-best-cities... personally I think #1 is overdoing it even though I live there but probably top 5. Depending what you prioritize.
- cherry_tree 2y agoIsn’t Canada part of the English empire?
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- sunflowerfly 2y agoPeople wealthy enough to live anywhere they want, often move to London. Or an island off of Miami.