# Winner-take-all cities

**Published by:** [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/)
**Published on:** 2017-11-07
**Categories:** alpha-cities, billionaires, cities, global-cities, innovation, knowledge-economy, richard-florida, super-rich, superstar-cities, uncategorized, urbanism, winner-take-all
**URL:** https://brandondonnelly.com/winner-take-all-cities

## Content

Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander, and Karen M. King have a new working paper out called Winner-Take-All Cities. It is about the phenomenon of “winner-take-all urbanism” and how a select number of alpha cities seem to overrepresent when it comes to talent, economic activity, innovation, and wealth creation. In this study they look at economic output, innovation (venture capital-backed startups), and billionaire wealth in each city. They then compare these factors to the distribution of the population. Here are the Alpha cities they looked at:In some cases the above concentrations were multiples of what the city’s population would lead you to predict. Their conclusion: “We find clear evidence of a winner-take-all urbanism across the global economy and the world’s cities.”

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