The World City: overview

1. The World City: overview

2. Urban Geography – Urban Systems

3. Ranking of Census MSAs (Metropolitan Statistical Areas) of U.S., 2005 MSAs with populations over 2 million (right) 24 more MSAs have pops between 1 and 2 million 47 more between 500,000 and 1 million 74 more between 250,000 and 500,000 169 more between 100,000 and 250,000

4. Primate City • One dominate city in a country or region. • There is usually not an obvious second city • Example - Paris France - 8.7 million next city Marseille - 1.2 million

5. World Urban System 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) Lat Long 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

6. Plot these cities on the world map 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

7. Place an X on 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). As cities are named more than once, just keep adding more X’s. Banking $ London New York Tokyo Hong Kong Singapore

8. Producer Services$ London New York Hong Kong Paris Tokyo

9. Management New York London Paris Madrid Stockholm

10. Law London New York Frankfurt Hong Kong Washington DC

11. Insurance London New York Hong Kong Los Angeles Paris

12. Advertising New York London Hong Kong Toronto Sydney

13. Media♫ London New York Paris Los Angeles Milan

14. Architecture/Engineering London New York Beijing Singapore Shanghai

15. United Nations Agencies Geneva Brussels Addis Ababa Cairo Bangkok

16. National Diplomatic Missions Washington DC New York London Tokyo Paris

17. Humanitarian & Environmental NGOs Nairobi Brussels Bangkok London New Delhi

18. Scientific Research London Los Angeles San Francisco Boston Basel Geneva New York

19. “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”

20. World Dominant Cities

21. US Dominant Cities