10/10/2023 0 Comments 2010 global cities index![]() ![]() A new configuration emerges, where expected national and local boundaries are presented in their real disposition based upon their international connectedness. The atlas shows the world cities according to the GaWC categorization of 2010. ![]() The leading parameters for the new configuration are based on mutual connections, primarily in the global economic system. Each city appears utterly separated from its geographical surroundings and closer to other cities of the same level. ![]() Chicago maintains its top-ten position, falling from 6 to 7. National or continental maps give way to a new world configuration intended as an archipelago. Paris and Tokyo, although they alternate positions this year, are always far above the rest of the top ten. If the world is observed from the point of view of the connectivity of the world cities, a new image emerges, where each city is virtually oriented to other cities of the same level of inter*connectivity. Particularly relevant in this discourse is its categorization of world cities into α (β and γ tiers, based upon their international connectedness. GaWC provides a geographic and economic-based overview of the world and its evolving configuration. Since 1998 the impact of the world cities on globalization has been extensively studied by the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Research Network. Global developments have had an increasing impact on contemporary cities, regions, and territories from societal, economic, and geographical perspectives. ![]()
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