Chicago Named 1 of 10 Alpha Cities in World January 25, 2008
Posted by Steve in : Weblog , add a commentAccording to the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Study Group, Chicago is one of the 10 Alpha Cities in the world, based on its position as a a global service center. Just one more reason to live and work here in this “City in a Garden”. The GaWC summarizes these global cities as:
Although there is a general consensus on which are the leading world cities, there is no agreed upon roster covering world cities below the highest level. This paper reports the construction of an inventory of world cities based upon their level of advanced producer services. Global service centres are identified and graded for accountancy, advertising, banking/finance and law. Aggregating these results produces a roster of 55 world cities at three levels: 10 Alpha world cities, 10 Beta world cities and 35 Gamma world cities. These are found to be largely geographically concentrated in three ‘globalization arenas’, northern America, western Europe and Pacific Asia.
A. ALPHA WORLD CITIES (full service world cities)
London, New York, Paris, Tokyo, Chicago, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Milan, Singapore
B. BETA WORLD CITIES (major world cities)
San Francisco, Sydney, Toronto, Zurich, Brussels, Madrid, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Moscow, Seoul
