The 10 Real Cities script
Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 9:34 am
I'm happy with the results of methodically defining 10 cities. There's a lot of diversity. My methodology is detailed on my blog, but here are the highlights:
Started with nation GDP and scaled the populations of most populous city per nation. Real wage rate (RWR) is derived from GDP. To sort the cities, I use a simple purchasing power ranking equal to population times RWR. The number of industrial ports are based on manufacturing output, and consumer ports based on the remainder of total (import + export) trade.
I'll keep the blog post updated.
Started with nation GDP and scaled the populations of most populous city per nation. Real wage rate (RWR) is derived from GDP. To sort the cities, I use a simple purchasing power ranking equal to population times RWR. The number of industrial ports are based on manufacturing output, and consumer ports based on the remainder of total (import + export) trade.
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Power City Population RWR C I
100.0% Shanghai 5,000,000 83 4 3
43.6% New York City 1,819,734 100 3 4
32.2% Mumbai 3,009,792 45 1 0
30.3% Tokyo 2,870,001 44 1 2
20.1% Moscow 2,505,674 33 1 0
19.3% Sao Paulo 2,465,093 33 0 0
14.1% London 1,813,598 32 2 0
6.4% Berlin 727,115 37 4 1
4.2% Rome 585,560 30 1 0
3.8% Paris 500,000 32 2 0- Shanghai has a bastion of customers for all your selling needs.
- New York City has the highest wage.
- Tokyo's industrial imports should help kick off the #3 manufacturer.
- Berlin has a lot of consumer goods ports, but not much of a population. Its industrial port could be significant.
- Sao Paulo has the honor of having no seaports, but it's nice population should make it a fine market.
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[HEADER]
Title=Esoteric Rogue's Real World Cities
Description=10 significant real world cites determined by vigorous methodology.
[ENVIRONMENT]
Number of Cities=10
[CITIES]
City=Shanghai
Population=5000000
Real Wage Rate=83
Consumer Goods Seaports=4
Industrial Goods Seaports=3
City=New York City
Globe X=125
Globe Y=70
Population=1819734
Real Wage Rate=100
Consumer Goods Seaports=3
Industrial Goods Seaports=4
City=Mumbai
Globe X=309
Globe Y=107
Population=3009792
Real Wage Rate=45
Consumer Goods Seaports=1
Industrial Goods Seaports=0
City=Tokyo
Population=2870001
Real Wage Rate=44
Consumer Goods Seaports=1
Industrial Goods Seaports=2
City=Moscow
Population=2505674
Real Wage Rate=33
Consumer Goods Seaports=1
Industrial Goods Seaports=0
City=Sao Paulo
Globe X=162
Globe Y=188
Population=2465093
Real Wage Rate=33
Consumer Goods Seaports=0
Industrial Goods Seaports=0
City=London
Population=1813598
Real Wage Rate=32
Consumer Goods Seaports=2
Industrial Goods Seaports=0
City=Berlin
Population=727115
Real Wage Rate=37
Consumer Goods Seaports=4
Industrial Goods Seaports=1
City=Rome
Population=585560
Real Wage Rate=30
Consumer Goods Seaports=1
Industrial Goods Seaports=0
City=Paris
Population=500000
Real Wage Rate=32
Consumer Goods Seaports=2
Industrial Goods Seaports=0
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