Cities of Opportunity

And yet another list ranking the world's top cities.  These are the 27 cities at  the center of the world economy.  The number in parentheses is from my previous list, for comparison.

1. New York (2)
2. London (3)
3. Toronto (44)
4. Paris (7)
5. Stockholm (-)
6. San Francisco (26)
7. Singapore (33)
8. Hong Kong (13)
9. Chicago (10)
10. Tokyo (1)
11. Sydney (41)
12. Berlin (72)
13. Los Angeles (8)
14. Seoul (4)
15. Madrid (48)
16. Milan (-)
17. Beijing (11)
18. Kuala Lumpur (63)
19. Shanghai (6)
20. Moscow (9)
21. Mexico City (18)
22. Abu Dhabi (-)
23. Buenos Aires (22)
24. Istanbul (39)
25. Johannesburg (-)
26. Sao Paulo (5)
27. Mumbai (25)

Source: http://www.pwc.com/us/en/cities-of-opportunity/assets/cities-opp-2012.pdf

Cities that I put in the top 25 that are missing here are:
Dallas
Houston
Washington
Shenzhen
Philadelphia
Osaka
Guangzhou
Miami
Atlanta
Boston

Like many of these lists, I think this suffers from an anti-US and anti-Chinese bias.  "Houston has been dropped from this year’s report in order to more evenly balance the US with the rest of the world."  Yep, got to be politically correct when ranking the top cities.