Cities of opportunity
London continues to lead in economic clout
Our fourth edition of Cities of opportunity shows that the financial crisis has not damaged London’s position as the city with the most economic clout in the world, as it performs strongly on the percentage of workforce employed in the financial and business services industry and the strength of currency.
Other key findings
New York leads the 2011 study, which analyses and ranks how 26 global centers of finance, business and culture perform across 10 key indicators. But it is followed closely in the top five by Toronto, San Francisco, Stockholm and Sydney. London follows closely in sixth place, leading in economic clout.
Cities of opportunity, 2011 looks at some of the most pressing urban issues in depth. These include the:
- paradox of measuring and improving education
- changing popular and real definition of what a cityscape looks like
- progress being made on sustainability
- costly and maddening toll of traffic congestion and what Singapore, Stockholm and London are doing to solve the problem
- friction playing out between progress and preservation
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Download the fourth edition of Cities of opportunity 2011.
