Capital of the World

[Wycoff]

Originally posted by Dis
I'm the only person to choose Dehli.

Central location. It's not in Europe or America.

That's why I voted for Samarkand. it's in the middle of Eurasia, and it has a history of being where the west and east meet.

Granted, it would need a lot of reworking to be a suitable place, but we're talking about fantasy here.

[Ben Kenobi]

I voted Rome.

My second choice would be London and then NYC.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Los Angeles. Seriously. A Western city on the Pacific Rim with a huge Latin American population -- doesn't get more global than that.

[Ben Kenobi]

LA is a dump.

That's the only reason it wouldn't make a good capital of the world.

It's downtown is almost as bad as Vancouver

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Why not the current one?

Shhhhh!

You're not supposed to mention Winnipeg.

[Odin]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
LA is a dump.

That's the only reason it wouldn't make a good capital of the world.

QFFT.

[Lancer]

Far away from me, I prefer the corruption.

[ColdWizard]

Mecca.

[CrONoS]

1: Montréal
2: Longueuil
3: Laval
4: Mecca
5: New York City
6: Montréal
7: Beloeil
8: Montréal

[DRoseDARs]

Montréal should be bombed from orbit with dirty diapers. Billions of them.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
LA is a dump.

That's the only reason it wouldn't make a good capital of the world.

It's downtown is almost as bad as Vancouver

qft

[Adalbertus]

Hiroshima.

Put all those power-crazy people of all colours there, and then repeat.

[Adalbertus]

Originally posted by Colonâ„¢

A. ALPHA WORLD CITIES (full service world cities)

12: London, New York, Paris, Tokyo

10: Chicago, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Milan, Singapore

Colon, what you are citing looks like a compilation made by bankers only. Frankfurt has most banks and the biggest airport in Germany only. It is not the most important in terms of Industry, or culture (in both Munich is far superior). Politically its only importance is through banks which is definitely as democratic as any other dictatorship.

[Wernazuma III]

Originally posted by Lancer
Far away from me, I prefer the corruption.

Yes, like in Washington: no corruption at all. This has always been a major flaw of the Civilization series.

[The Vagabond]

Originally posted by Aivo½so
No votes for St Petersburg or Rome?

My fault. Corrected.

In fact, in terms of its museums and architecture, St.Peterburg is among the top world cities. There are maybe only three or four cities in the world that can compare with St.Petersburg in this regard.

St.Petersburg's positions in the world of business are not nearly as strong. But it will improve in the near future, after they complete the Gazprom tower (and a business district around it). So Gazprom will rule the world from its headquarters in St.Petersburg.