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World Cities. Adapted from a presentation by David Palmer & Phil Kline. 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,1950 (estimated from various sources)
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World Cities Adapted from a presentation by David Palmer & Phil Kline
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,1950 (estimated from various sources) City Pop (in millions) LatLong New York, USA 12.3 40 N 74 W London, UK 8.7 52 N 0 Tokyo, Japan 6.9 35 N 135 E Paris, France 5.4 49 N 2 E Moscow, USSR 5.4 56 N 37 E Shanghai, China 5.3 31 N 121 E Essen (Ruhr), Germany 5.3 51 N 7 E Buenos Aires, Argentina 5.0 34 S 58 W Chicago, USA 4.9 41 N 87 W Calcutta (Kolkata), India 4.4 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 . Top Ten Cities, 2015 (estimated from various sources) City Pop (in millions) Lat Long Tokyo, Japan 28.9 35 N 135 E Mumbai (Bombay), India 26.2 19 N 73 E Lagos, Nigeria 24.6 6 N 3 E São Paulo, Brazil 20.3 23 S 46 W Dhaka, Bangladesh 19.5 23 N 90 E Karachi, Pakistan 19.4 25 N 69 E Mexico City, Mexico 19.2 19 N 99 W Shanghai, China 18.0 31 N 121 E New York, USA 17.6 40 N 74 W Kolkata (Calcutta), India 17.3 22 N 88 E
On your World Cities chart place an Xnext 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 York Tokyo Hong Kong Singapore
Producer Services$ London New York Hong Kong Paris Tokyo
Management New York London Paris Madrid Stockholm
Law London New York Frankfurt Hong Kong Washington DC
Insurance London New York Hong Kong Los Angeles Paris
Advertising New York London Hong Kong Toronto Sydney
Media♫ London New York Paris Los Angeles Milan
Architecture/Engineering London New York Beijing Singapore Shanghai
United Nations Agencies Geneva Brussels Addis Ababa Cairo Bangkok
National Diplomatic Missions Washington DC New York London Tokyo Paris
Humanitarian & Environmental NGOs Nairobi Brussels Bangkok London New Delhi
Scientific Research London Los Angeles San Francisco Boston Basel Geneva New York
WORLD CITIES “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 from the Globalization and World Cities Research Center