Alpha global city10/11/2023 ![]() Thanks to our friends over at Covered Dish for the tip. In 2011, the population of the city of Johannesburg. ![]() What about our oft-touted 'regional rival' Charlotte? It ranks a paltry "Gamma +." So suck on that, Queen City. known for its organization of cities into alpha, beta, and gamma tiers based on their integration into the global network. The metropolis is an alpha global city as listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. ![]() Atlanta's classification? 'Alpha-' which denotes, " very important world cities that link major economic regions and states into the world economy." We keep respectable company there among Miami, Zurich, Barcelona and Bangkok, among others. At the top of the global city food chain at 'Alpha++' level are New York and London, followed by 'Alpha+' cities like Hong Kong, Paris, Tokyo and Chicago. Each year, GaWC publishes their " World According to GaWC," a ranking system for world cities based on their connectivity and place among a global system (basically ignoring nation state boundaries). The Globalization and World Cities Network (or GaWC) is the self-proclaimed "leading academic thinktank on cities in globalization." Spend some time on their website and you'll find a collection of research and participating researchers that would seem to back this up and then some.
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