Most of its major industries engage in tourism, chemical and steel production sectors and majority of foreign embassies have chosen Shanghai as its home, which greatly adds to the prestige and appeal of the once small fishing village on the Chinese east coast.
The Russian capital offers more than their famed vodka and luxurious caviar. After getting dethroned as the official seat of the country when St. Petersburg was founded, Moscow was reintroduced as the capital city of Russia after the Revolution. Chicago is home to the Chicago Bulls, the basketball team that lorded over the basketball scene in the s.
It is also home to the deep-dish pizza, a culinary offering rarely found anywhere else. But Chicago is more than just basketball and an Italian dish. Since the modern founding of Chicago in , all the city did was grow and it is still developing up to this day.
Current industries found in Chicago are manufacturing, printing and publishing. Today, only square kilometers of its total land area can be described as an urban metro. The rest of the land is either designated as agricultural and cultural. Most industries found in the city engage in metal, textile and plastic production. While it has the reputation of being the City of Romance today, Paris went through a very stormy history.
Today, apart from being the City of Romance, Paris is now the Fashion Capital of the World, with high end clothing labels lined up in their streets and fashion designers and models flocking to the city to make it big. London started out as a Roman settlement called Londinium and soon grew to be a huge city even after the collapse of the Roman Empire. London suffered much throughout the history.
There was the Great Fire in , which was then followed by the Black Plague a century after. London also figured as an immensely important city during the two World Wars. The city was a dream destination for many people from different races, cultures, and religions, making London a vital melting pot of the world. As far as commerce goes, the city thrives on finance and banking. History says that Seoul was founded as early as 17BC and is considered to be one of the oldest surviving settlements in the East Asian region.
When a truce between the two Koreas was formalized, Seoul started to develop as a city and never stopped since. Major businesses anchored in Seoul engage in electronic, textile and iron and steel production. Known to the world as the City of Angels, the glitzy and plush city of Los Angeles comes from very humble beginnings.
Founded as a small village made up of predominantly Spanish-descent settlers, the village evolved to a huge town when Americans won it in The construction of railroads attracted more settlers and helped build business establishment until it blossomed to the city we know today. While many regard Los Angeles as the filmmaking and showbiz hub in the United States, most businesses found in the city belong to the finance and banking sectors.
The Big Apple. The City that never sleeps. If you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere, or so that old Frank Sinatra hit goes. New York is one of the most historically rich cities in the United States, particularly in the East Coast.
It figured in the Anglo-Dutch War, where the Dutch won the city but eventually turned it over to the English as decreed via a treaty in New York was one of the cities that called for the abolition of slavery in the United States and it also served as an entry port to immigrants from Europe, which made New York into a culturally diverse place that it is today.
Great things come from small beginnings, or so the old adage goes. And it is the case for Tokyo, Japan. Edo is the former name of Tokyo. The city suffered a turbulent past — an earthquake in almost levelled the city which was also the receiving end of extensive bomb runs during the Second World War.
Her decision to focus on these two industries was spurred by their explosive growth in the last decade, much of it she attributes to the emergence of disruptive technologies and the quick adoption by businesses that were quick to recognize their values to their organizations. She has covered all the major developments in SaaS and B2B software solutions, from the introduction of massive ERPs to small business platforms to help startups on their way to success. It is said "when a man is tired of London, then he is tired of life.
I wish London the best. Thank you for this great article. It's very useful in understanding the trends of urbanization. Let's talk about Los Angeles. There are some understandable misconceptions and inaccuracies in this article. First: Los Angeles is best understood as a Multi-nodal metropolitan region. This is something people often don't appreciate. The City of Los Angeles proper is home to nearly 4 million people. However, the County of LA is comprised of 87 other separate cities, and home to Add to this the contiguous counties of San Bernardino, Riverside, Orange, San Diego and you are at roughly 20 million.
If you have ever flown into or driven through this region you realize that it is one vast and unbroken urban carpet, separate on paper but joined together by roads, real estate development and relationships in a way that is hard to comprehend until you set foot here and SEE it.
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Whilst totally fine from an art point of view, this does impair viewing quality. Compared with the same quarter of the previous year, GDP grew by 2. In Quarter 4 Oct to Dec , growth in the production sector remained flat to one decimal place, while the construction sector fell by 2.
Relative to , London has experienced strong growth in production, showing the strongest increase of all the sectors. However, this is in part a recovery from a fall in output in production in Quarter 2 Apr to Jun. The services sector has seen growth through and , while construction continues to fall relative to Production F.
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