Dublin achieves Alpha- World City status
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haha, suck on that Dubai, youl need more than a few fancy buildings to beat us,lol :D:D
Maybe Dublin aint doing as bad as we thought, anybody know what the city is judged on or what the criteria are for becoming an alpha world city? I mean what does an “Alpha world city” really mean??
In your face Ho Chi Minh City!!!!
According to GaWC, Dublin has been an Alpha- city since 2000 and there hasn’t been any change in this regard in their latest study (last year)?
Dublin has dropped significantly down some other city ranking since then. For example, it may not seem like a good thing for the people living there but in terms of how expensive it is for expats (a proxy for growth and demand), Dublin has dropped 10 places to the mid 20s in the last year.
In fairness Dublin does house some of the world’s biggest multinational companies, meaning it does have a pretty big financial centre – which I’m guessing is probably one of the biggest reasons it has alpha city status.
Regardless, it all sounds like good news to me![How did it beat out Berlin and Los Angeles though??]
as i stated elsewhere:
alpha+ & alpha- Cities: Very important world cities that link major economic regions and states into the world economy…
it measures just one process in city development: the servicing of global capital.
That’s their criteria. So considering Dublin’s Intel, Dell, Facebook, Google and the entire IFSC more or less represent the link between Europe and the US and World Economies, is it not reasonable that Dublin is ahead of some other major cities? What does Berlin do to serve the global economy and what function does Washington perform bar the site of the US government?
This is not about trains, architecture, the price of a cup of coffe, the weather or the socio-economic mix of a city. It’s about globalisation and locations where the global economy touches down. And not many could deny that Dublin is a key landing point for global capital and has been for a decade.
It’s part of the reason we’re so fooked now isn’t it?
a virtual alpha city then
“Dublin has been an Alpha- city since 2000”
No it hasn’t! It was a city with “strong evidence of world city formation” until the latest survey.
@damnedarchitect wrote:
“Dublin has been an Alpha- city since 2000”
No it hasn’t! It was a city with “strong evidence of world city formation” until the latest survey.
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/world2000t.html
I think they used to classify it differently ‘though – alpha- used to be gamma or something.
alpha beta nama
This is great news
If you could make it a beta city tomorrow as pleasant and as well-looked-after as Copenhagen, I’d take it in a second.
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