editor Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 There's always been a lot of discussion on this forum about what makes a "world class city" and whether Houston is one, or not. Today I was working on one of HAIF's sister sites, London Architecture .co.uk (*cough* plug *cough*) and came across this masthead from London's official web site: "working for" (meaning "working toward" in British English) caught my eye. If LONDON isn't a world class city by now, what is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snoopy123 Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 There's always been a lot of discussion on this forum about what makes a "world class city" and whether Houston is one, or not. Today I was working on one of HAIF's sister sites, London Architecture .co.uk (*cough* plug *cough*) and came across this masthead from London's official web site: "working for" (meaning "working toward" in British English) caught my eye. If LONDON isn't a world class city by now, what is? Londoners have a weird perspective on things sometimes. I guess by saying that, they encourage their people and those who go over there to be more productive, harder working citizens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citykid09 Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 I thought the meaning was that the Corporation of London was working for, as in being employed by a world class city.Or is it that they are working to make London a world class city. I think its the first one I said. London is already a world class city. If its not there aren't too many world class cities on earth than. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted December 12, 2005 Author Share Posted December 12, 2005 I thought the meaning was that the Corporation of London was working for, as in being employed by a world class city.Or is it that they are working to make London a world class city. I think its the first one I said. London is already a world class city. If its not there aren't too many world class cities on earth than.I understand it as "Working toward a world class city" based on the British English I hear. Granted, I don't live there, but I listen to BBC Radio One (thank you Sirius) and LBC1215 (than you internet) almost daily, so I've grown used to many of their idioms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ V Lawrence Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 There's always been a lot of discussion on this forum about what makes a "world class city" and whether Houston is one, or not.Okay, here's two or three questions for everyone to decide before this discussions goes any futther...1) Who decides decides that a city is officially world-class; the hometown citizens, or an outsider when they think of that city? If it's hometown, Houston and London are world-class. If it's outsiders, London's world-class, and Houston's getting there.2) My definition of a world-class city: When you think of the most known prestigous cities in the world, you almost never leave it's name off the list (hence the name "world-class"). Does Houston or London make that list? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VicMan Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 The Corporation of London only governs the City of London.The area called "London" is far larger than the city of London. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 The Corporation of London only governs the City of London.The area called "London" is far larger than the city of London.The actual city of London only has a population 1,200. If I remember someone correcting me. But the area "London" is what we (Americans, the rest of the world) is actually the metro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted December 14, 2005 Share Posted December 14, 2005 There's an interesting classification of world class and aspiring world-class cities done by a group called GaWC. Based on their scoring, cities are scored as Alpha (world-class), Beta, Gamma, or formative. Houston rates as a Gamma. Link to Wikipedia article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 There's an interesting classification of world class and aspiring world-class cities done by a group called GaWC. Based on their scoring, cities are scored as Alpha (world-class), Beta, Gamma, or formative. Houston rates as a Gamma. Link to Wikipedia articleThats only the HQ's of certain business'... I believe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 ""working for" (meaning "working toward" in British English) I think you may be misreading this. 1/2 my team is in London, and I don't think it reads that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted December 16, 2005 Author Share Posted December 16, 2005 " I think you may be misreading this. 1/2 my team is in London, and I don't think it reads that way. I'm more than willing to concede that I heard it wrong, especially since I know you go over there a lot these days. Maybe I'm reading more into it than there really is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 I dunno. Now I am confused. But I wish we had something similar in Houston.It sounds like they do the work that the city won't do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shasta Posted December 27, 2005 Share Posted December 27, 2005 There's always been a lot of discussion on this forum about what makes a "world class city" and whether Houston is one, or not. Today I was working on one of HAIF's sister sites, London Architecture .co.uk (*cough* plug *cough*) and came across this masthead from London's official web site: "working for" (meaning "working toward" in British English) caught my eye. If LONDON isn't a world class city by now, what is? It means working for a World Class City as in working for the city and the people of London. I can't imagine a list that wouldn't include London as a world class city. Here's a local translation example: Reliant Energy- working for the Space City. As in working for the city and people of Houston but not working toward making Houston a 'space' city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2112 Posted December 28, 2005 Share Posted December 28, 2005 The Corporation of London only governs the City of London.The area called "London" is far larger than the city of London.Are you from Dallas, by chance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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