World Cities Case Study

Question 1

Boston nature

Answer 1

Capital city of Masscahusetts

Question 2

Boston Economic Authority

Answer 2

• Boston Stock Exchange was aquired by NASDAQ for $61 million
• Trade: handled 237 000 containers in the Port of Boston (2015)
• Business: 2 companies from the global 500 (General Electric and Liberty Mutual Insurance group)
• HQ of International Data Group media company with average annual revenues of $2.56 billion
• Tourism: 20 million domestic visitors, 3 million international

Question 3

Boston Cultural Authority

Answer 3

• Home to 35 colleges, universities and community colleges, including Harvard and MIT (1st and 2nd ranked in US) - 152 000 students
• Sport stadiums: Fenway Park, Boston Garden
• Sport spectacles: Annual Boston marathon with 30 000 registered participants and 500 000 spectators
• 7th largest immigration population (state wise in the US) with 12.2%

Question 4

Boston operate on global network

Answer 4

• transport: Boston Logan International airport had 43 million passenger in 2019
• Boston Stock Exchange
• HQ of APS and TNCs
• fibre optic cables

Question 5

Boston what cities they dominate and who they depend on

Answer 5

significant dominance in terms of education and intellect - Harvard has more than 7200 international students

They are the capital city of Massachusetts

Question 6

Beta: Washington DC - nature

Answer 6

• Political capital of the USA

- 9 universities

Question 7

Washington DC Economic Authority

Answer 7

Global 500 companies: Walmart, Amazon, Costco, Microsoft, Starbucks
- 4th largest state exporter of goods ($70 billion)

Question 8

Washington DC Cultural Authority

Answer 8

1 in 7 DC residents are immigrants

• 17 museums and galleries
• Smithsonian Locations attract more than 30 million visitors a year
• Top rated tourist attraction: Capitol Hill, National Gallery of Art

Question 9

Washington Dominance and dependence

Answer 9

• political capital of the US, therefore influences political decisions for the country

Question 10

Washington Global Network

Answer 10

• airport served 23.5 million passengers

Question 11

Nashville

Answer 11

• known as the ‘music city’
• ‘Music Row’ morphology
• home of the Country Music Television (media)
• Global 500: community health systems, dollar general, hospital corporation of america, tractor supply company
• second largest music production centre in US (10 billion per year)
• largest industry is healthcare - contributes 30 billion $ per year