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World Cities Adapted from a presentation by David Palmer & Phil Kline
World Cities
Adapted from a presentation by David Palmer & Phil Kline
Top Ten Cities,1950 (estimated from various sources)City Pop (in millions) Lat Long New York, USA 12.3 40 N 74 WLondon, UK 8.7 52 N 0Tokyo, Japan 6.9 35 N 135 EParis, France 5.4 49 N 2 EMoscow, USSR 5.4 56 N 37 EShanghai, China 5.3 31 N 121 EEssen (Ruhr), Germany 5.3 51 N 7 EBuenos Aires, Argentina 5.0 34 S 58 WChicago, USA 4.9 41 N 87 WCalcutta (Kolkata), India 4.4 22 N 88 E
On your World Map plot these cities to see where the world’s ten largest cities were located in 1950.
Symbolize each with a circle .
Top Ten Cities, 2015 (estimated from various sources)City Pop (in millions) Lat
LongTokyo, Japan 28.9 35 N 135 EMumbai (Bombay), India26.2 19 N 73 ELagos, Nigeria 24.6 6 N 3 ESão Paulo, Brazil 20.3 23 S 46 WDhaka, Bangladesh 19.5 23 N 90 EKarachi, Pakistan 19.4 25 N 69 EMexico City, Mexico 19.2 19 N 99 WShanghai, China 18.0 31 N 121 ENew York, USA 17.6 40 N 74 WKolkata (Calcutta), India 17.3 22 N 88 E
On your World Map plot these cities to see where the ten world’s most populated cities will be in
2015. Symbolize each with a square .
On your World Cities chart place an X next to each city as it is named on the following 12 lists. Each list identifies the top 5 cities as ranked according to its provision of certain services (Taylor 2005).
Banking $London
New YorkTokyo
Hong KongSingapore
Producer Services $
LondonNew York
Hong KongParisTokyo
Management New YorkLondon
ParisMadrid
Stockholm
Law London
New YorkFrankfurt
Hong KongWashington DC
Insurance London
New YorkHong KongLos Angeles
Paris
Advertising New YorkLondon
Hong KongTorontoSydney
Media ♫London
New YorkParis
Los AngelesMilan
Architecture/Engineering
LondonNew YorkBeijing
SingaporeShanghai
United Nations Agencies
GenevaBrussels
Addis AbabaCairo
Bangkok
National Diplomatic Missions
Washington DCNew YorkLondonTokyoParis
Humanitarian & Environmental NGOs
NairobiBrusselsBangkokLondon
New Delhi
Scientific Research London
Los AngelesSan Francisco
BostonBasel
GenevaNew York
“World cities are not simply the world’s largest … cities. Rather, they are the control centers for the global economy, places where critical decision making and interaction take place with regard to global economic, cultural, and political issues” (Knox and Marston 2001, p. 426).
WORLD CITIES
WORLD CITIES
WORLD CITIES
from the Globalization and World Cities Research Center
WORLD CITIES
