Globalization Study: Vienna Among Top 20 Cities

Politics ♦ Published: November 30, 2010; 10:38 ♦ (Vindobona)

New York remains at the top of the ranking of the "Global City Index 2010" by A.T. Kearney. Vienna stays unchanged at 18th place.

Globalization Study: Vienna Among Top 20 Cities / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / Fabian Lackner [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]

The "Global City Index" determines which is the best equipped city for the global future.  The study surveyed 65 cities in 40 countries, using five categories used as indicators: "economic activity", "population", "education", "culture" and "information exchange".

“Global cities are places where business is done, where there is a large cultural offer and where there are the…