Worlds Greatest Cities

SafeSurfer

What are the great cities of today? In the past, cities like Rome, Athens, Constantinople, Baghdad, Jerusalem would have clearly been among the most important cities on earth. Which of today's cities could be considered to be in the top 10 most important cities? New York? London? Paris? Tokyo? Beijing?

The Backwards Man

Vegas and Derry.


You could wipe every other city of the face of the Earth and I'd be happy.

Geoffrey Dalton

Cork

Jinonatron

SafeSurfer wrote: »

What are the great cities of today? In the past, cities like Rome, Athens, Constantinople, Baghdad, Jerusalem would have clearly been among the most important cities on earth. Which of today's cities could be considered to be in the top 10 most important cities? New York? London? Paris? Tokyo? Beijing?

Been to all that you've mentioned. Spent considerable amount of time working in Beijing.

It's important. Political. Big. Interesting. But a complete ****hole!

However even though I consider it a dumb I would totally recommend a visit in Winter to experience the smog and chaos synomomous with modern China.

LordSutch

NEW YORK
LONDON
PARIS
BEIJING
TOKYO
MOSCOW
BERLIN
ROME
ISTANBUL
SHANGHAI.

Fair

fleet_admiral

Power city in Carrickmines

SafeSurfer

LordSutch wrote: »

NEW YORK
LONDON
PARIS
BEIJING
TOKYO
MOSCOW
BERLIN
ROME
ISTANBUL
SHANGHAI.

None in the Southern Hemisphere?

The_Valeyard

Atlantis

The Backwards Man

LordSutch wrote: »

NEW YORK
LONDON
PARIS
BEIJING
TOKYO
MOSCOW
BERLIN
ROME
ISTANBUL
SHANGHAI.

Everyone's talkin' 'bout. . .

harry Bailey esq

Dublin obviously,honourable mentions for Berlin and Rio de Janeiro

NachoBusiness

Atlantic City.

Ten of Swords

SafeSurfer wrote: »

None in the Southern Hemisphere?

Only about 10% of the worlds population lives in the southern hemisphere. There are large cities (Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Jakarta) but I'm not sure how influential they would be compared to some of the cities already listed.

I'd add Singapore, Hong Kong and Los Angeles to the list!

Melbourne without a doubt best city on earth

EuropeanSon

New York
London
Hong Kong
Tokyo
Paris

After those there's a long list, but I think those are indisputably at the top, for a variety of reasons. London and New York trounce everything really.

Aside from those mentioned on this thread, Forbes (who know a thing or two about the subject) would add Singapore, Sydney, Los Angeles, Dubai, the San Francisco Bay Area and Toronto to make up a list of the world's most influential cities.

Samaris

Mexico City should go on there for sheer scale too.

Bozo Skeleton

Totally depends on the way you want to do it. Staying in a swizz hotel and going to the local McDonalds is not the way to see a place.
Santiago De Cuba
Barcelona

Chain Smoker

San Francisco Bay Area
Berlin
New York
Paris
Limerick

irishguitarlad

Seville obviously, great food, weather, women, nice people, easy to get around and an interesting history.

The_Kew_Tour

Miami is underrated

Colonel_McCoy

Florence and New York

biko

Metropolis

asherbassad

I have no idea why people are so on the horn for New York being a great city / ..."greatest city"

I've lived there for 7 years

Tall buildings, noise and attitude don't make a city great. The things that people bang on about New York (delis, restaurants, some museums and theatres) are a microcosm of the city as a whole.

Take the 5 boroughs and what you have is a filthy, stinking hodgepodge of millions of people trying to eke out an existence with graffiti everywhere, pot-holed roads, crumbling bridges and tunnels, a third world public transport system, a subway network that seems to be made for horror movies, airports that more closely resemble Social Welfare offices with runways, beggars and homeless everywhere, apocalyptic ghettos.

That's hardly a great city. And while it's a fun spot to visit for a week or if you're absolutely loaded, spend 6 months there as a middle income worker and then spend a similar amount of time in similar circumstances in a city like Amsterdam or Vienna with the delights that these cities offer even to those at the lower end of the income bracket and you'll see just how non-great New York really is.

osarusan

Historically, few cities have been more important and influential than Minas Tirith.