Global cities by country

[Shawn]

Originally Posted by 3rd&Brown

A superior set of rankings that puts Fukuoka in Japan (3 cities in Japan total) as a top 50 city and only 2 cities in main land China and 6 cities in the US?

I mean both methodologies are flawed.

This is true, but from my view the former's rankings make good sense relative to the cities the authors included in their study, while GaWC's rankings make no sense within the cities they're ranking. Case in point: Osaka below Porto and Minneapolis and Austin.

There should have been more Chinese cities in the Mori study, but other than Fukuoka's inclusion and position, Mori's rankings make sense given the criteria they spell out.

GaWC's rankings aren't even consistent with their own criteria.

[Zeej]

Originally Posted by Docere

Their focus is on "ultra high net worth individuals." Interestingly Moscow has gone up 4 places in their ranking while it's plummeted in GAWC.

My bad - I meant to reference Kearney. Shroders does a good list too.

[iheartthed]

Moscow's plummet in the global city rankings makes a lot of sense after their government alienated itself from 70% of the globe.

[JManc]

Originally Posted by iheartthed

Moscow's plummet in the global city rankings makes a lot of sense after their government alienated itself from 70% of the globe.

As soon as Russia ends the war and learns how to play well with others, Moscow will shoot back up in the rankings.

[iheartthed]

Originally Posted by JManc

As soon as Russia ends the war and learns how to play well with others, Moscow will shoot back up in the rankings.

I wouldn't count on that without a leadership change in Russia. Many countries that wanted to embrace post-Soviet Russia (::ahem:: Germany ::ahem:: ) have been badly burned by that relationship in the past two years and it will take years (or decades) for that to heal.