Global City (Anteria)

Since 1994, the University of Layfet has complied the Global Cities Index, which is used to describe the influence of a city on the world stage.

A global city, also called a power city, world city, alpha city or world center, is a city which is a primary node in the global economic network. The concept comes from geography and urban studies, and the idea that globalization is created and furthered in strategic geographic locales according to a hierarchy of importance to the operation of the global system of finance and trade. The most complex node is the "global city", with links binding it to other cities having a direct and tangible effect on global socio-economic affairs.Competing groups have petitioned the University of Layfet to include their own criteria. Cities can fall from ranking, as in the case of cities that have become less cosmopolitan and less internationally renowned in the current era.

Rankings Explained

Currently, The University of Layfet's Global Cities Index divides cities into Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon cities.

Rank	Explanation
Alpha	Alpha level cities are linked to major economic states and regions and into the world economy, filling advanced service needs.	Beta	Beta level cities are cities that link moderate economic regions to the world economy.	Gamma	Gamma level cities are cities that link smaller economic regions into the world economy.	Delta	Delta level cities are cities that have a sufficient degree of services so as not to be entirely dependent on world cities.	Epsilon	Epsilon level cities are cities that have a sufficient degree of services so as to be only moderately dependent on world cities.

City	Rank