Amazon’s hunt for HQ2 offers a blueprint for the perfect global city City Talk The Schroders Global Cities blog aims to identify the most investible cities and has compiled a Global Cities Top 30 Index. Here blogger Ryan Bennett examines Amazon's plans to find the perfect global city. In September Amazon announced plans to open “Amazon HQ2”, a second company headquarters in the US or Canada. Amazon expects to [...]
Could Melbourne’s house price boom derail its global city status? City Talk The latest version of the Schroders Global Cities index was published last month. The index uses a number of factors to identify the most economically vibrant cities. Melbourne was ranked 8th. This post from the Global Cities blog focuses on the city’s outlook… As we found on our recent visit, Melbourne boasts an enviable wealth [...]
