Milwaukee narrowly made the cut on a list of the best cities in the world– at least by the standards of Vancouver-based Resonance Consultancy Ltd.
Credit: Maredithe Meyer
The real estate, tourism and economic development consulting firm recently published its annual “World’s Best Cities Report,” which placed Milwaukee as 96th out of the 100 large-size cities it analyzed. It ranks near Detroit and Sacramento as 94th and 95th, and Kansas City and Tampa as numbers 97 and 98.
As a “ranking of global place equity,” the list reflects how attractive each city is to employees, employers and tourists, Resonance said.
Findings are based on data from digital platforms such as TripAdvisor and Instagram to measure a city’s “experiential quality and performance,” according to the report.
“As our research with partners such as Ipsos has shown, these experiential factors are now some of the most important in shaping opinions about the desirability of cities as places to live, visit and do business.”
To rank each city, Resonance used metrics based on the city’s number of online references, perception of environmental quality, major attractions and infrastructure, economic development, population diversity, and arts, culture and entertainment scenes.
Thirty-five U.S. cities secured spots in the 2019 ranking, with three of them, including Chicago, in the top 10. The full list includes:
1. London
2. Paris
3. New York
4. Tokyo
5. Barcelona
6. Moscow
7. Chicago
8. Singapore
9. Dubai
10. San Francisco
11. Madrid
12. Amsterdam
13. Los Angeles
14. Rome
15. Boston
16. San Jose
17. Toronto
18. Washington
19. Zurich
20. Hong Kong
21. Beijing
22. Berlin
23. Sydney
24. Las Vegas
25. Frankfurt Germany
26. Miami
27. San Diego
28. Seoul
29. Prague
30. Munich
31. Houston
32. Milan
33. Dublin
34. Seattle
35. Dallas
36. Istanbul
37. Vancouver
38. Melbourne
39. Vienna
40. Abu Dhabi
41. Calgary
42. Brussels
43. Denver
44. Doha
45. Oslo
46. Orlando
47. Austin
48. Stockholm
49. Montreal
50. Philadelphia
51. Brisbane
52. Atlanta
53. Copenhagen
54. Saint Petersburg
55. Perth
56. Minneapolis
57. Lisbon
58. Venice
59. Portland
60. Hamburg
61. Tel Aviv
62. Lyon
63. Florence
64. Stuttgart
65. Luxembourg
66. Edmonton
67. Osaka
68. Auckland
69. Ottawa
70. Budapest
71. Helsinki
72. Athens
73. Cologne
74. Bangkok
75. Charlotte
76. Phoenix
77. New Orleans
78. Baltimore
79. Valencia
80. Manchester
81. Nashville
82. Salt Lake City
83. Dusseldorf
84. Sao Paulo
85. Rio de Janeiro
86. Raleigh
87. Warsaw
88. Marseille
89. San Antonio
90. Birmingham
91. Columbus
92. Shanghai
93. St. Louis
94. Detroit
95. Sacramento
96. Milwaukee
97. Kansas City
98. Tampa
99. Nuremberg
100. Bristol
