Resonance Consultancy-2021全球最佳城市排行榜报告（英文）

World’sA R A N K I N G O F G LO BA L P L AC E EQ U I T Y20 2 1B E STC I T I E S.O RGPmPgPsPoPdPcThe Performance of the World’s Best Cities: The Methodology — 06World’s Top 100 Cities Profiles — 08The World’s Best Cities Performance by Category — 52Where to live, work, invest and visitLove cities?• 3 days to shape the cities of tomorrow and experience them like never before• 100+ speakers, including Richard Florida, Bjarke Ingels, Jennifer Keesmaat and Chip Conley• 20+ urban experiences ranging from Sunrise Yoga from Santa Monica to Dim Sum Magic from Hong Kong to Burlesque 101 from Brooklyn• Thousands of global citizens and city lovers eager to learn about the future of citiesJoin WRLDCTY, the planet’s largest virtual cities festival, from home.October 22 – 24, 2020Accesible for replay anytime.Learn more at WRLDCTY.comRESONANCECO.COM 03As leading advisors in tourism, real estate and economic development for more than a decade, our team has conducted extensive research on the rise of cities, the key trends propelling this growth and the factors that shape our perception of urban centers as desirable places to live, visit and invest.The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged us and our cities in ways none of us have ever experienced before. It’s caused us to reexamine and rethink the way we’ll want to live, work and play in the future. If there’s one thing that social distan-cing has taught us, it’s that the shared spaces we were asked to close and avoid—from parks to restaurants to sporting venues, museums and galleries—are what we cherish most about the cities we live in or love to visit.The planet’s large cities—with MSA populations of more than a million people—face imminent and myriad challenges that will define their next decade and beyond.Just take two obvious and looming but diametrically opposed inevitabilities: flight from the perceived density danger of pandemic-stricken cities by those with the means, and the rising homeless population due to unprecedented unemployment and inability to afford housing.The world’s cities would be derailed by just one of those tsunamis, never mind both barreling down simultaneously. To say a reinvention is upon us is an understatement.To capture this reality in our rankings—now in their sixth year —we have also expanded and evolved. We have added three new factors to our ranking. For our Prosperity category, we have added the unemployment rate of a city (as of July 2020, the latest numbers available at press time) and the Gini Index of Income Inequality. In our Place category, we added the number of COVID-19 cases per million (as of July 31, 2020) for each city.While this Best Cities ranking incorporates standard metrics for factors such as these three new ones, as well as our standards like weather, crime and household incomes, what distinguishes our methodology from all others is that we also incorporate user-generated data to quantify the number of quality restaurants, shops, nightlife and other