Top Ten Worlds Cities

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7670156.stm

Glasgow has made it into a list of 10 top world cities compiled by the travel guide company Lonely Planet.

Scotland's largest city was the only UK entry on the list, which appears in the firm's Best In Travel 2009 publication.

The guide states: "Forget castles, kilts, bagpipes and tartan. You come for the cocktails, cuisine and designer chic (plus the legendary native wit)."

"Glasgow has shaken off its shroud of industrial soot and shimmied into a sparkling new designer gown."

Included in the "what's hot" in Glasgow list is actor James McAvoy and pan-fried scallops.

"Defining experiences" include cruising the Clyde by powerboat and "adding your voice to the Hampden roar".

Lonely Planet travel editor Tom Hall said: "The time has come for Lonely Planet to let one of its worst-kept secrets out: Glasgow's got everything.

"We're delighted to highlight such a fun, stylish city."

The other cities in the top 10 were: Antwerp, Beirut, Chicago, Lisbon, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Warsaw and Zurich.

It's nice to know Glasgow is as good as Beirut.

You come for the cocktails, cuisine and designer chic.

you come for the things that can be found elsewhere

Included in the "what's hot" in Glasgow list is actor James McAvoy and pan-fried scallops.

Lonely Planet can really suck sometimes

Aye, James McAvoy to be found on every corner.

Beirut is my top 1 world city. I know half of teh other one and they dont strike me as particularly "hot"

I would live in Zurich

Would you? I really liked it when I went there - but to live there, I dunno...

My sister lasted less than 6 months there.

The Zurchers are a little hard to deal with on a daily basis, they are the most Swiss of the Swiss.

maybe she forgot to go powerboat cruising on the sihl.

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What were the criteria here?????

I have friends in Zurich and Antwerp and they love it there.

Forget castles, kilts, bagpipes and tartan

That'll be some other Glasgow that's world renowned for its castles, obviously...

Warsaw? I've been there, it's ok I guess. The thing I enjoyed most about it was passing a housing estate by chance and seeing someone had meticulously graffitied the Camden Town tube sign six feet high on a wall.

oo, Chi over NYC... Second City Erection!

The DIRTY VICAR and I made an authoritative list of the first, second, third and fourth divisions of world cities, only a year or so ago.

If the Vicar were here maybe he could confirm my sense that Glasgow was in the second division, which was good going really.

Forget castles, kilts, bagpipes and tartan

i will not!

What were the criteria here?????

Perfectly Nice Places If You've Already Been Everywhere You'd Really Want To Go

I dunno, that's a bit meant spirited, the D.F. is awesome and Beirut looks wonderful.

Nice place to live, wouldn't want to visit

I've never been to the others, but would be willing to be they are every bit, if not better, than Glasgow. I hardly go to Glasgow any more and it's only 6 miles away.

You can insert some words in that to make it coherent, if you like. I suggest "as good as" after "every bit".

I think Glasgow is one of the better cities in Britain (I prefer it to Edinburgh, Newcastle, Leeds, Liverpool, London - that's just personal preference I know London has so much more going for it for example) but definitely not up there as far as world cities are concerned.

Beirut doing pretty well for a city that was getting pretty heavily bombed only a couple of years ago. What gives?

Concerted effort at not being seen as just a place that got bombed heavily, perhaps?

also, Shanghai? this list is *screwed*

I hardly go to Glasgow any more and it's only 6 miles away.

i can vouch for that.. i go to glasgow more often than ailsa

out of that bunch, Mexico City DF is tops for me

i was hoping that article was about munchie boxes, and the karaoke at the pewter pot

Glasgow is good for record shopping and gigs.

or singing "bad boy bad boy, watchu gonna do" when you enter the "inner circle" on the underground

plus £1 a drink with weird men at the viper on great western road.

i love glasgow

Loads of places are good for record shopping and gigs. Also, OMG, Ken, The Viper? Really? lol

I once got a knock back from the Viper. I can only assume it was justified because I would have to be absolutely slaughtered to resort to going there.

Antwerp strikes me as a bit small to be in a top 10 thingy. Sao Paulo otoh seems way to be insane to be listed alongside Zurich. Also, what happeend to all these 90's horror stories about SP (ie. brutal carjackings on every corner, etc).

Lisbon seems a nice pick tho. i could def see myself spending a couple of years there.

i can vouch for that.. i go to glasgow more often than ailsa

ooh, get you! I mean I do go into Glasgow a lot, but just for work and football and the odd gig or two. I don't often venture there for fun, even when ken's here :-(

http://www.hiddenglasgow.com/misc/images/glasgow_smiles_better.jpg

http://www.theglasgowstory.com/images/TGSA05070_m.jpg

Thatcher, Kinnock, Owen and Steel can't be wrong!

Aye, that Michael Kelly knew a thing or two as well.

That slogan is 25 years old :(

We need a logo for "Try Glasgow More".

http://www.beer-pages.com/images/westons-strong.jpg

Or

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2168/1876946943_c096534b37.jpg

Second one needs a big cross photoshopped onto it to signify NOT MONO, really.

The 2008 Global Cities Index

top ten:
1. New York
2. London
3. Paris
4. Tokyo
5. Hong Kong
6. Los Angeles
7. Singapore
8. Chicago
9. Seoul
10. Toronto

toronto yeeeah

overlap:

8. Chicago
20. Shanghai
25. Mexico City
26. Zurich
31. Sao Paulo