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Originally Posted by Minato Ku
I would be quite cautious about the so called visible business cluster, it is not necessarily representative of the economic power of the city.
In many European cities, business cores with many office buildings are usually less visible than in the American or Asian cities because they are not much architecturally different that a dense residential district.
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Similar is sometimes true in the US. DC (no skyscrapers) has more office jobs in its core than any US city besides Chicago and New York City. And Manhattan outside of the skyscraper districts of Lower Manhattan and Midtown still has a high number of jobs, just spread out over a larger area, enough to be at least as big if not larger than downtown DC itself.