Well, kinda sorta. But at least we made the list. And notice OKC did not [
] Perhaps some of that is due to the fact that we still have a decent sized manufacturing base, the largest commercial aircraft maintenance base in the world, the port, etc. which connect us to other global cities.
What the list is about. "Basically, economic connectivity."
".... the world city network is identified as an unusual form of network with three levels of structure: cities as the nodes, the world economy as the supra-nodal network level, and advanced producer firms forming a critical sub-nodal level. The latter create an interlocking network through their global location strategies for placing offices. Hence it is the advanced producer service firms operating through cities who are the prime actors in world city network formation...."
The different city classifications in a nutshell...
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/gawcworlds.htmlThis years list and rankings.