MAccording to the 2021 Global Power City Index (GPCI), the governments have seen a significant decrease in the competitiveness of any major global cities during COVİD-19 PANDEM, as the governments tightened border restrictions and applied challenging social distance restrictions.
In the Pandemik business world, it is seen that these global centers will protect their ability to attract the highest caliber workers. But, 2021 Global Power City Index-Mori Monument Foundation’s Urban Strategies Institute in Tokyo-MoL Big City was adapted to the home and hybrid working trends.
Peter Dustan, a researcher of the Institute of Urban Strategies, says that although international travel is still difficult due to Covid restrictions, many cities began to relax social distance measures as COVİD-19 vaccines increase. Some cities began to require evidence of vaccination to participate in major events and to use food or public transport in restaurants.
Dustan thinks that this year’s Power City Index, which was released on Wednesday, is useful to compare how cities were affected by Covid-19. “The shape or character of urban attractiveness may change, but it will be important in attracting new jobs and skills, or he says.
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For example, Hong Kong, who has been in the top 10 every year for the last seven years, fell from the ninth to 13th in 2020. Hong Kong’s government is one of the most challenging Covid-19 border restrictions in the world with compulsory hotel quarantine for up to three weeks for travelers. The Asian Finance Center also had the largest decrease in the number of airlines with 88%.
According to the Global Power City Index, London continues to be the most attractive city, but its overall score has fallen, and the authors of the report fell to both the epidemic and Brexit, which prevented its economy and global accessibility. “The fact that all other European cities increase the economic points of all other European cities show that the output of the EU has started to have an impact and that other European cities allow it to grow to London,” he said.
Tokyo has largely developed its overall scores due to the improvements in business flexibility as 2020 Olympics and Paralympics and Japan. It adapts from home to work.
The Global Power City Index evaluates global cities with “magnetisms ve using 70 indicators in six categories: Economy, research and development, cultural interaction, livability, environment and accessibility.
Working in 48 cities evaluated this year saw that accessibility was hit; Compared to the year before the global pandemi began, the frequency of international flights between these cities decreased by about 50%.
However, the Institute of Urban Strategies, although there are fewer people acting between them, has reported some positive changes in 48 cities-more than half of them have increased in common working areas and a decrease in working hours.
Here are the top 10 world cities of the Global Power City Index:
