![]() But I don't think London's persona is at all tied into being "the greatest city in the world". ![]() It can't be great for New York to have to have the mantle of being on top of everything, the world's greatest, more of this and more of that. ![]() It can't be good for New York to be in a nation where it is the only great city. We're backsliding which can't be good for New York. ![]() And both indeed truly come of age during the exact same time, the first half of the 20th century, a century whose 1950 midpoint saw the US way up on top of global nations and New York in the post-WWII era with the destruction in Europe and East Asia, way on top of global cities. New York's rise to greatness followed the same path as America's. In case you don't recognize it, the rise of the United States and the rise of New York paralleled each other rather nicely. In a world where the power center has shifted from the North Atlantic to that enormous swath of land from Asia to Europe, the world's true core, we come across comically here in the US as we argue over which one of our cities is the biggest or the best or the most this or the most that. Where do you get with an approximate 280 miles ride outside of New York? Buffalo. Yet Europe can put two global cities, London and Paris, a mere 280 miles apart. LA, our second greatest, is 3000 miles away and only New York is in the same league as London, Tokyo, and Paris. What a great country we are! New York is our only global city. My guess is that a lot of people in London, Tokyo, and Paris think so about a nation that clearly has lost its mind. ![]() #1 King of the Hill, Top of the Heap (which is how its largest city sees itself, too) that is an incredible third in size for both population and area spread over 3000 miles with 330,000,000 folks, must be some kind of a backwater place with only one truly global city.Īnd maybe we are a backwater. I would say the nation that likes to see itself as the A No. ![]()
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