Very Irritating--Global City

[ainulindale]

So metro is kind of an arbitrary measurement as well and would also belie the imporance of certain cities

In any event, I thought the survey got the "world cities" (the alpha, beta, and gamma cities) dead on. Where it started getting ridiculous was when they started delving into the cities with "evidence of world city formation". The "3 point" cities seem to all belong there. However, once you get to 1 and 2 point cities, it gets very hazy. I think, by that point, the cities are ranked so lowly that the difference between 1 point and 2 points is pretty slim. Also, sicne there are so many 1 and 2 point cities, they probably didn't bother studying them all and just chose a representative amount.

For my 2 cents, I'd put Pittsburgh as either a 1 point or 2 point city.