DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2016, 8(3):72-87 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2016.023

Evaluation of Vienna's World Economic Position Based on Global and World City Rankings

Andrea Uszkai
Junior research fellow, PhD Student. Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre for Economic and Regional Studies Institute for Regional Studies, Széchenyi István University Doctoral School of Regional- and Economic Sciences

Keywords: global city, world city, Vienna, ranking

Metropolitan areas play a dominant role in today's economic, social and environmental processes; therefore the scientific interest has also increased related to the global and world cities. They can be considered as key players of the world economy and a very complex competition takes place among them, which crosses the national state borders. Every city tries to reach the most favorable position and this rivalry has helped the birth of several city rankings. This paper has two important aims. Firstly, it explains the term of the world and global city based on the international literature and it is also looking for the answer, whether the Austrian capital belongs to which category. Secondly, it examines the position of Vienna in the different world and global city rankings.

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Uszkai, A. (2016). Evaluation of Vienna's World Economic Position Based on Global and World City Rankings. DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism, 8(3), 72-87. doi: 10.32725/det.2016.023
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