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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 . City Top Ten Cities, 1950 (estimated from various sources) Pop (in millions) Lat Long New York, USA London, UK Tokyo, Japan Paris, France Moscow, USSR Shanghai, China Essen (Ruhr), Germany Buenos Aires, Argentina Chicago, USA Calcutta (Kolkata), India 12. 3 8. 7 6. 9 5. 4 5. 3 5. 0 4. 9 4. 4 40 52 35 49 56 31 51 34 41 22 N N N N S N N 74 W 0 135 E 2 E 37 E 121 E 7 E 58 W 87 W 88 E

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 . City Top Ten Cities, 2015 (estimated from various sources) Pop (in millions) Lat Long Tokyo, Japan Mumbai (Bombay), India Lagos, Nigeria São Paulo, Brazil Dhaka, Bangladesh Karachi, Pakistan Mexico City, Mexico Shanghai, China New York, USA Kolkata (Calcutta), India 28. 9 26. 2 24. 6 20. 3 19. 5 19. 4 19. 2 18. 0 17. 6 17. 3 35 N 19 N 6 N 23 S 23 N 25 N 19 N 31 N 40 N 22 N 135 E 73 E 3 E 46 W 90 E 69 E 99 W 121 E 74 W 88 E

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

Producer Services $ London New York Hong Kong Paris Tokyo

Management New York London Paris Madrid Stockholm

Law London New York Frankfurt Hong Kong Washington DC

Insurance London New York Hong Kong Los Angeles Paris

Advertising New York London Hong Kong Toronto Sydney

Media ♫ London New York Paris Los Angeles Milan

Architecture/Engineering London New York Beijing Singapore Shanghai

United Nations Agencies Geneva Brussels Addis Ababa Cairo Bangkok

National Diplomatic Missions Washington DC New York London Tokyo Paris

Humanitarian & Environmental NGOs Nairobi Brussels Bangkok London New Delhi

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

“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”