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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse
It absolutely shouldn't be controversial or a big deal. That was my point. A list that most people don't find relevant is best ignored, not made the subject of controversy or debate.
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If anything is irrelevant, it's what we discuss on this forum here. Great urban experiences of various cities is interesting [to us] but esoteric dinner party conversation, not something organizations pay tens of thousands of dollars on a report for*.
I'm pretty sure that the GaWC research group doesn't write grants and hire postdocs to comb through reams of economic data just so that it can pump out this yearly ranking list.
I think this is the icing on the cake they use for publicitiy, and their real mission is to probably answer questions like
"what global cities saw the fastest growth in trade with the Kuala Lumpur metropolitan region between 2018-2019?" for clients like the Kuala Lumpur Board of Trade to lobby their national government for things like trade missions or expanded air service, or things like that.
*If you're a huckster like Richard Florida, you can somehow turn this into a marketing tool.