Mapping The Future

[Abaddon]

Well I enjoyed it, and you didn't. Thats what matters You don't have to take everything the wrong way you know.

 

[Symphony D.]

Retroactive deletion.

 

[Dachs]

Jesus H. Christ, Symphony. That is insane. Fortunately I've got nothing better to do than verify that at this time of night...get right on that...

EDIT: That took a long time, and it's early enough for me to have missed a few things, but I do hereby verify S-FVB 34.

 

[LightFang]

Well, I'm not a great historian, or a smart person, or anything, but off the top of my head, just because I can procrastinate on my dumb extended essay for IB:

Vatican City, Italy - Cultural. Although you would probably be loathe to mark it as special, since Rome already has to pull double duty as Italy's capital.

New York, USA - Commercial. Financial center of the world! Stock exchange is here.

San Jose, USA - Commercial/Research. Capital of Silicon Valley. Lots of high-tech businesses around here.

Tel Aviv, Israel - Commercial/Research. Silicon Wadi is here. More high-tech businesses.

Mecca, Saudi Arabia - Cultural. Muslims make the Hajj here. Kind of important.

Jerusalem, Israel - Cultural. It's a holy city and capital of Israel!

 

[jalapeno_dude]

I'd add London, Dubai, and Chicago as Commercial. Probably Chicago as Research too. And London, Paris, New York as Cultural.

 

[Dachs]

So here's a project for the rest of you that doesn't involve supreme amounts of effort: imagine that special cities are classified as Commercial, Cultural (including Religious), Industrial, and Research. Begin identifying all modern-day cities worthy of such recognition.

Crosspost?

For Cultural, I'd go with LA, maybe New York, Rome, Mumbai, maybe Varanasi, and God I don't know in East Asia and South America. Then again, New York is probably more commercial, along with Rotterdam, London, the whole Tokyo/Yokohama agglomeration, Hong Kong, Dubai, Hyderabad (that might be Research instead), Istanbul, and probably Lagos. I don't know enough about Industrial and Research to say anything off the top of my head.

(Ha ha, it is a crosspost.)

 

[Symphony D.]

Retroactive deletion.

 

[human-slaughter]

Washington, D.C. Cultural

San Francisco, USA Commercial

Dallas, USA Commercial/Industrial(?)

Paris, France Cultural

 

[Dachs]

Houston'd be a good commercial center that nobody's mentioned and which isn't on Wiki. So would Durban, in South Africa (Africa's busiest port IIRC). Athens should probably be a commercial center due to the Piraeus, too. Jiddah would sort of have to be included in commercial as well, and Dhahran might be industrial to represent the Saudi oil fields there. Esfahan might be a good industrial choice for Iran.

 

[~Darkening~]

Sao Paulo, Brazil- industrial/commercial (more merit in the first category).
Rio de Janerio- cultural

Other than the major two:
Salvador da Bahia: commercial
Belo Horizonte: commercial
Porto Alegre: commercial
Recife: industrial/commercial (more merit in the first category).

 

[Symphony D.]

Retroactive deletion.

 

[Adrogans]

Las Vegas should be a major commercial center I'd imagine.

 

[jalapeno_dude]

I see no real indication of Chicago being a strong research site.

Well, I was thinking mostly of U Chicago + Fermilab, but I suppose that's not enough.

 

[Luckymoose]

Atlanta is missing from this list. It is ranked third in the US for number of fortune 500 companies and all.

 

[Yui108]

Well, I was thinking mostly of U Chicago + Fermilab, but I suppose that's not enough.

I agree with this. Fermilab is still the largest Nuclear Accelerator in the world and University of Chicago has the most nobel awardees of any university.

 

[jeps]

pretty much all cities you dont have yet with MAJOR STOCK EXCHANGES (the top 20 list, not the one for evry country in the world) should be commercial.

so that would be: Johannesburg, Shenzhen, and Madrid, with Stockholm and Mumbai (as commercial as well as cultural)

 

[Symphony D.]

Retroactive deletion.

 

[Yui108]

Hey, Symphony this might be a question already answered but are you planning a modern day Never Ending Story?

 

[Masada]

@Lightfang:

"New York, USA - Commercial. Financial center of the world! Stock exchange is here."

Sorry to say but “The City”, London is the financial centre of the world, all those expensive corporate collapses, Enron etc created a ridiculous regulatory burden which America is still paying for. The NYSE might still be the largest stock exchange, but otherwise it’s behind London.

As for Australia and New Zealand.

Melbourne is the Commercial hub of Australia, more so that Sydney, in my opinion.
Sydney Commercial/Research, Sydney handles the bulk of Australia’s research efforts, which for a country of 22 million people is not insignificant.
Auckland is the Commercial hub of New Zealand, it ranks 3rd or 4th in terms of Financial activity in the Southern Hemisphere (behind Melbourne, Sydney and… can’t remember of the top of my head) measured for financial transactions.

As for Indonesia

Jakarta is the Commercial hub of Indonesia, everything that happens in Indonesia goes through Jakarta. Jogjakarta can count as just being part of greater Jakarta and environs.

 

[jeps]

pretty much all cities you dont have yet with MAJOR STOCK EXCHANGES (the top 20 list, not the one for evry country in the world) should be commercial.

so that would be: Johannesburg, Shenzhen, and Madrid, with Stockholm and Mumbai (as commercial as well as cultural)

to this list i add Mexico City

• Five emerging economy cities are currently in the top 30 ranked by GDP (Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Sao Paolo, Moscow and Rio de Janeiro), but projections suggest that all of these cities except Rio will move up the global rankings by 2020 while fast-growing cities such as Shanghai, Mumbai, Istanbul and Beijing will move into the global top 30 by then.

SOURCE

some stuff on the World's best financial cities list could be good too.

according to that list
Philadelphia is higher than Osaka.