Meanings of world city in anglès

The result, Stallman says, is something akin to a third- world city.

Sir, - We have witnessed the terror-bombing of a third- world city by a nuclear-armed superpower.

With its flat surfaces and dry climate, no world city is better suited to bicycles.

The city has been consistently proving itself unworthy of its world city ranking for years now.

Such an inevitable world city is San Francisco.

He knew everything about this old- world city, where the turning-point of his life had been fixed.

Saragossa has a playful way of sacking religious houses, which the older- world city of Navarre would never permit.

Haifa had become a world city.

I performed two tests: one ridden over long distances, the other in real- world city riding over a period of four days.

Together with Leningrad's awakening come the beginnings of a revival of the erstwhile quality of the place as a world city.

If anyone doubted that London was now a world city, rather than just the capital of the UK, the figures say different.

He is not as enthusiastic about Rome as he is about Naples but admits it to be a truly 'important world city'.

As 1920s London becomes proudly conscious of its " world city" status its authorities become obliged to manage competing transport mode priorities.

London is not an English city, but a world city -and never more so than now, in the era of mass migration.

Half a century ago, Tokyo engineered one of the great urban transformations of history, going from a beat-up Asian megalopolis to a first- world city.

London, Britain's only example of what upmarket estate agents love to call a " world city", is at the centre of the phenomenon.