The 10 Traits of Globally Fluent Metro Areas

The Global Cities Initiative, a joint undertaking of the Brookings Institution and JPMorgan Chase, conducted a worldwide survey to understand what makes a city “globally fluent.” The authors used historical and geographical evidence plus the survey’s results to capture the 10 attributes that these successful metropolitan areas share. The report’s findings clearly show city officials, urban planners and business communities the factors that shape their municipality’s performance in global markets so they can implement the changes necessary to keep pace with complex international commerce. getAbstract recommends this perceptive study to city officials, planners and students of urban history who want to know how cities evolve, prosper or decline.