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World Cities

World Cities. 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

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World Cities

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  1. World Cities

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

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

  6. Management New York London Paris Madrid Stockholm

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

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

  9. Advertising New York London Hong Kong Toronto Sydney

  10. Media♫ London New York Paris Los Angeles Milan

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

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

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

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

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

  16. “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”

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