Most important city on Earth.

kowloon

opinion guy wrote: »

No. Palo Alto/Cupertino is. San Jose is mostly like Swords lets say. Residential/commercial. The industry is out of town.

The answer is London - by a wide margin.


Aside: I had no idea so many Cork people used boards!!!!

Was over there for training, but I never had much of a clue about exactly where I was. Industrial estates everywhere.

oppenheimer1

Just follow the money. The most important city on earth currently is New York, followed by London.

If all the institutions that are located there were destroyed, there would be global chaos. Thankfully since Y2K most have off site backups.

Chucken

opinion guy wrote: »

Aside: I had no idea so many Cork people used boards!!!![/QUOTE

I voted Cork, I'm not from there.

I just like annoying......other cities

Historically, it's Rome.. That city has influenced the world far more than any other in history between empires and religion.

Currently, it's probably New York.

kraggy

TheBegotten wrote: »

Mexico City is the most populous on earth, Damascus is one of the oldest, Seoul is probably the most technologically advanced, New York is probably the most economically important (for now). I'd probably say Ulaanbaatar though, because I like the name :P

Tokyo is the biggest urban area in the world which is all that really matters.

Different countries have different criteria fir city boundaries thus it's not a suitable parameter on which to judge.

Even if it were actual city size versus urban area, Mexico still wouldn't be number 1.

Using common sense and cutting through all the crap, Tokyo is the biggest city in the world by a good distance.

iDave

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Historically, it's Rome.. That city has influenced the world far more than any other in history between empires and religion.

Currently, it's probably New York.

I agree Rome....or Trim

holystungun9

Jaded Jester wrote: »

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Final answer?

Playboy

London or New York ... Either would be disastrous

mikemac1

Cashel

Even a Clareman like Brian Boru knew that Tipp was the place to be :cool:

twinytwo

Turtyturd wrote: »

New York....I think the reason it's been shown so much is that we are used to seeing stuff like that happen to New York in films, so to see it for real is actually more shocking than if they show some unknown town in America.

Cuba got destroyed by the storm.... You would be hard pushed to hear about it anywhere.

twinytwo

Deleted User wrote: »

Historically, it's Rome.. That city has influenced the world far more than any other in history between empires and religion.

Currently, it's probably New York.

Ill raise you london on that one...

CINCLANTFLT

It's interesting that no one said Brussels...

Zebra3

Ashgabat.

Duggys Housemate

The London answers are funny. It's the worldwide centre of no industry;, not finance, media, movies, software, nor... whatever else goes on there. Tourism?

jessiejam

opinion guy wrote: »

No. Palo Alto/Cupertino is. San Jose is mostly like Swords lets say. Residential/commercial. The industry is out of town.

The answer is London - by a wide margin.


Aside: I had no idea so many Cork people used boards!!!!

Cork has the internet too and even elecricity can you believe it!:eek:
On a side note the most important city is probably where Angela Merkel lives I suppose:o

dd972

Probably be NY or Shanghai, London thinks it's mega important due to it's size and the financial district being there, 75% of London is a pointless nothingsville

brimal

A Primal Nut wrote: »

Culture: Los Angeles.

Technology: San Diego.

Economics: New York or Shanghai

Politics: Washington or Beijing.

International Relations: Jerusalem.

This is pretty much on point.

I would probably add Tel Aviv to Technology too.

Celly Smunt

El paso,a.k.a Dundalk.

Dangerous Man

eth0 wrote: »

If a Nuclear bomb landed on Cork in the morning we wouldn't notice any difference because it's a kip.

FYP

youreadthat

Duggys Housemate wrote: »

The London answers are funny. It's the worldwide centre of no industry;, not finance, media, movies, software, nor... whatever else goes on there. Tourism?

Your ignorance is funnier.

Chucken

mikemac1 wrote: »

Cashel

Even a Clareman like Brian Boru knew that Tipp was the place to be :cool:

Ah he only went there to put manners on ye

EoghanIRL

A Primal Nut wrote: »

Culture: Los Angeles.

Technology: San Diego.

Economics: New York or Shanghai

Politics: Washington or Beijing.

International Relations: Jerusalem.

Culture: Cork

Technology : Cork

Economics: Cork

Politics : Cork

International relations : Cork

There I fixed your post

TheUsual

EoghanIRL wrote: »

Cork : Cork
Corkology : Cork
Corkomics: Cork
Corkitics : Cork
There I fixed your post

I fixed it for you.
P.S. Please take back Eddie Hobbes, he is just getting bleedin annoying at this stage.

GCU Flexible Demeanour

Gangnam district, Seoul.

For at least another three weeks, at any rate.

FootShooter

NY and London are constantly ranked as top global cities. Also the UN headquarters is in NY.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_city

Lapin

London.

Boris should be mayor of the world !

Lapin

eth0 wrote: »

Cork

Almaviva wrote: »

Cork.
Obviously.
How can someone not know that already?

Chucken wrote: »

Ya, The Peoples Republic Of Cork

SeaFields wrote: »

delighted so many people recognise cork as the most important city on earth.

my my my wrote: »

berlin or Cork

Chucken wrote: »

No. we're saying Cork, not town

EoghanIRL wrote: »

Cork city

TheComeUp wrote: »

Cork [∞]

/thread

EoghanIRL wrote: »

Culture: Cork

Technology : Cork

Economics: Cork

Politics : Cork

International relations : Cork

^^^^^^^^^^

Alteady the world capital of the inferiority complex and the source of second city syndrome !

Sorry Cork, but the world needs leaders - Not langers.

caste_in_exile

St. Zenon

grenache

Rome, for obvious reasons.

grenache

FootShooter wrote: »

NY and London are constantly ranked as top global cities. Also the UN headquarters is in NY.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_city

London is global alright, a global kip.

mikemac1

Sure nobody likes Cork

Even the ESB hate you

Time for another flooding!

steve9859

grenache wrote: »

London is global alright, a global kip.

Seriously, anyone who genuinely thinks that has got to take that chip off their shoulder....

Kold

Duggys Housemate wrote: »

The London answers are funny. It's the worldwide centre of no industry;, not finance, media, movies, software, nor... whatever else goes on there. Tourism?

Yet it carries weight in every one of those industries. Also... FOOTBALL.

Almost certainly London imo.


Or Cork.

GCU Flexible Demeanour

Lapin wrote: »

second city

Belfast?

Duggys Housemate

youreadthat wrote: »

Your ignorance is funnier.

Explain to me what is London the centre of, with the exception of European finance. It also is big, but not the word's biggest in advertising. Both industries are zero sum games, creating nothing. My "ignorance" is waiting to be informed.

It manufactures nothing. It has little or no cinema. Its big so but so Lagos, or Mexico city.

If london disappeared tomorrow, then the world would carry on, after a day or two, transferring financial transactions to NY or Frankfurt, and advertising across the rest of Europe and NY. if silicon valley disappeared, the worldwide IT industry would collapse. If LA disappeared, cinema would never be the same. London has nothing.

summerskin

Duggys Housemate wrote: »

Explain to me what is London the centre of, with the exception of European finance. It also is big, but not the biggest in advertising. My "ignorance" is waiting to be informed.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/04/10/the-worlds-most-important-cities-according-to-rich-people/

This do for you?


"Based on power within the global financial market, the market for luxury housing, economic opportunities, highbrow educational institutions, political influence, safety, knowledge, quality of life and more, the world’s top cities were wedged into a list. Only two countries had multiple city representatives, with the U.S. and China each tossing two within the top-10. London easily led the way for survey respondents based on everything from a powerful economy and a wonderful quality of life to its political and cultural influence and an ample supply of luxury housing"

summerskin

or maybe this, where London is second?

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/node/373401

"The Global Cities Index 2010
In this second collaboration between Foreign Policy, A.T. Kearney, and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, we bring you the world's top global cities.
Rank City Rank by Population Rank by GDP
1 New York 6 2
2 London 28 5
3 Tokyo 1 1
4 Paris 20 6
5 Hong Kong 31 14
6 Chicago 25 4
7 Los Angeles 12 3
8 Singapore 38 23
9 Sydney 43 24
10 Seoul 22 19
11 Brussels 54 48
12 San Francisco 46 16
13 Washington 42 10
14 Toronto 36 20
15 Beijing 13 33
16 Berlin 48 46
17 Madrid 34 22
18 Vienna 55 40
19 Boston 41 11
20 Frankfurt 64 20
20 Shanghai 7 21
22 Buenos Aires 11 12
23 Stockholm 59 52
24 Zurich 61 58
25 Moscow 19 13
26 Barcleona 37 31
27 Dubai 56 49
28 Rome 49 37
29 Amsterdam 63 60
30 Mexico City 5 8
31 Montreal 44 35
32 Geneva 65 61
33 Miami 58 54
33 Munich 35 18
35 Sao Paulo 3 9
36 Bangkok 32 42
37 Copenhagen 60 59
38 Houston 40 17
39 Taipei 53 26
40 Atlanta 39 15
41 Istanbul 21 30
42 Milan 52 39
43 Cairo 17 36
44 Dublin 62 55
45 New Delhi 2 32
46 Mumbai 4 25
47 Osaka 16 7
48 Kuala Lumpur 57 65
49 Rio de Janeiro 14 27
50 Tel Aviv"

Duggys Housemate

steve9859 wrote: »

Seriously, anyone who genuinely thinks that has got to take that chip off their shoulder....

There is a larger cultural cringe to what is, in fact, a medicore Big City in the pro-London posts..

Wompa1

The most important city to me is usually the one I'm living in...

Duggys Housemate

summerskin wrote: »

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/04/10/the-worlds-most-important-cities-according-to-rich-people/

This do for you?


"Based on power within the global financial market, the market for luxury housing, economic opportunities, highbrow educational institutions, political influence, safety, knowledge, quality of life and more, the world’s top cities were wedged into a list. Only two countries had multiple city representatives, with the U.S. and China each tossing two within the top-10. London easily led the way for survey respondents based on everything from a powerful economy and a wonderful quality of life to its political and cultural influence and an ample supply of luxury housing"

So rich people like London. Of course they do, it's a tax haven for rich people. And the quality of life is absolutely terrible for everybody else. Its political and cultural influence? Is that a joke? Do the respondents think that the world watches British TV, and British movies? Ludicrous. If you do watch the BBC, which is good but not great, a lot of the most watched TV is American. America leads in TV, music, Cinema, software.

Education? Britain's best universities are not in London either.

I am still waiting to see what the city actually produces.

LordSutch

Has to be London or New York.

Wompa1

Silicon Valley is a good shout. Look at the amount of griping when people lost their tech in NY because they had no power. Our dependence is a little scary!

I would think Abu Dhabi, Bahrain and Dubai are pretty important for their oil production?...though from reports with all of the fracking the US are doing currently, they will likely surpass Saudi Arabia as the worlds leading oil producer.

steve9859

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_city#Global_City_Competitiveness_Index

summerskin

Duggys Housemate wrote: »

So rich people like London. Of course they do, it's a tax haven for rich people. And the quality of life is absolutely terrible for everybody else. Its political and cultural influence? Is that a joke? Do the respondents think that the world watches British TV, and British movies? Ludicrous. If you do watch the BBC, which is good but not great, a lot of the most watched TV is American. America leads in TV, music, Cinema, software.

Education? Britain's best universities are not in London either.

I am still waiting to see what the city actually produces.

I had a great quality of life in london, have you ever lived there? free museums, affordable restaurants, vast parklands, cycle routes, cheap public transport etc.

Univeristies, what about UCL and Imperial College, which are both in the top ten globally?

Nobody watches London films though, must be why Harry Potter, James Bond(filmed mainly in studios in London and it's surrounding areas) etc do so badly. Same for TV shows such as Downton Abbey etc

And as for London music, nobody listens to Coldplay(founded in London), The Rolling Stones, Blur, David Bowie, Queen, The Who etc....

Duggys Housemate

Duggys Housemate wrote: »

So rich people like London. Of course they do, it's a tax haven for rich people. And the quality of life is absolutely terrible for everybody else.

If that's the criteria you can rule out anywhere in the US and the entirety of the 'developing world' (including China). In fact you could narrow it straight down to western Europe tbh, which would leave London, Paris or maybe Berlin.

Is that actually what you are trying to say, or do you have some other point?

steve9859

Duggys Housemate wrote: »

So rich people like London. Of course they do, it's a tax haven for rich people. And the quality of life is absolutely terrible for everybody else.

Thats just clearly uninformed nonsense. I moved over from Dublin a year ago, and my quality of life is great. Easily the equivalent of Dublin IMO, but with more to do in terms of shows, museums, restaurants etc

af_thefragile

What's so amazing about New York?
Its just a big city where everyone wears too much make up, has too much money and everyone is very rude to everyone else...

GCU Flexible Demeanour

steve9859 wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_city#Global_City_Competitiveness_Index

27 Dublin59.5

Not surprised, but good to see it registering.

Lapin

Duggys Housemate wrote: »

Explain to me what is London the centre of ......

It manufactures nothing.

Duggys Housemate wrote: »

I am still waiting to see what the city actually produces.

The Park Royal area of West London produces one third of the food consumed in London.

Thats enough to feed the entire population of the Republic of Ireland. (And probably includes some of the chips on your shoulder).

Source:

Source summary:

Supermarket sandwiches, upmarket steak and kidney pies, rich tea biscuits, chilli and lemon flavoured crisps, ethnic ready meals, spring rolls, organic rye bread and hummus are all made here.


In total, there are 489 different food companies that operate on this 1,800-acre site. And between them, they employ more than 15,000 people and manufacture a third of all the food consumed in one of Europe's largest capitals.

Wompa1

Lapin wrote: »

The Park Royal area of West London produces one third of the food consumed in London.

Thats enough to feed the entire population of the Republic of Ireland. (And probably includes some of the chips on your shoulder).

Source:

Source summary:

Supermarket sandwiches, upmarket steak and kidney pies, rich tea biscuits, chilli and lemon flavoured crisps, ethnic ready meals, spring rolls, organic rye bread and hummus are all made here.


In total, there are 489 different food companies that operate on this 1,800-acre site. And between them, they employ more than 15,000 people and manufacture a third of all the food consumed in one of Europe's largest capitals.

Buhhh?? So London is important for itself? Without London, the people of London would go hungry...