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Dubai 25 29.76%
london 59 70.24%
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Old 13th October 2006, 16:03   #11
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which do u prefer.

Dubai has much more skyscrapers than london. Dubai is getting more important and will overtake london in 5 years.

Dubai to overtake London?

London is the financial capital of Europe !!
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Old 13th October 2006, 18:07   #12
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London.
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But Dubai has the worlds tallest skyscraper and is building more than 100 more. london isnt that important anyway.
London is very important, as the guys said before it is the finance capital of Europe, it has history and heaps of attractions such as Big Ben, London Bridge, Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square, Hyde Park and the British Museum

Really it should be Dubai vs Hong Kong or London vs Paris.
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Old 13th October 2006, 19:28   #14
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World-class cities (6 years ago)

Alpha world cities (full service world cities)
* 12 points: London, New York, Paris, Tokyo
* 10 points: Chicago, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Milan, Singapore

Beta world cities (major world cities)
* 9 points: San Francisco, Sydney, Toronto, Zürich
* 8 points: Brussels, Madrid, Mexico City, São Paulo
* 7 points: Moscow, Seoul

Gamma world cities (minor world cities)
* 6 points: Amsterdam, Boston, Caracas, Dallas, Düsseldorf, Geneva, Houston, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Melbourne, Osaka, Prague, Santiago, Taipei, Washington
* 5 points: Bangkok, Beijing, Montreal, Rome, Stockholm, Warsaw
* 4 points: Atlanta, Barcelona, Berlin, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Miami, Minneapolis, Munich, Shanghai

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Evidence of world-class city formation...

Strong evidence
* 3 points: Athens, Auckland, Dublin, Helsinki, Luxembourg, Lyon, Mumbai, New Delhi, Philadelphia, Rio de Janeiro, Tel Aviv, Vienna

Some evidence
* 2 points: Abu Dhabi, Almaty, Birmingham (UK), Bogotá, Bratislava, Brisbane, Bucharest, Cairo, Cleveland, Cologne, Detroit, Dubai, Ho Chi Minh City, Kiev, Lima, Lisbon, Manchester, Montevideo, Oslo, Riyadh, Rotterdam, Seattle, Stuttgart, The Hague, Vancouver
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....I doubt, in 6 years, Dubai has climbed to Alpha status (World-class maybe...I don't know).
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