[Posted by Prof Henry G. Overman] I've been reading some of the recent material from the Foresight project on cities. In particular, I've been looking at the interesting piece by Ron Martin, Ben Gardiner and Peter Tyler on the long run economic growth performance of UK cities
Empirical research on cities starts with a spatial equilibrium condition: workers and firms are assu...
What can urban policy do to improve the economic performance of Britain’s cities? Henry Overman, dir...
This paper considers the relationship between city-size and growth in a UK context. This has a numbe...
Policy-makers and academics frequently emphasize a positive link between city size and economic grow...
More than 80 percent of Americans live in urban areas, and cities are the source of much of the coun...
Thanks to everyone who attended my LSE works public lecture last Thursday. Podcast and slides are av...
This paper examines the link between average city size and aggregate economic growth in a total of 1...
The size distribution of cities in many countries follows some broadly regular patterns. Any good th...
Yesterday's depressing economic growth figures, Tuesday's announcement by Greg Clark on city mayors ...
Urbanization economies – the effects on productivity and utility created endogenously by larger citi...
In the UK, the increasingly dominant assumption is that the big cities are the motor of regional eco...
Measures of urban productivity are typically positively associated with city population. But is this...
In the last 15 years, empirical evidence has emerged about the fact that European first-rank cities ...
In the UK, the increasingly dominant assumption is that the big cities are the motor of regional eco...
Urban growth refers to the process of growth and decline of economic agglomerations. The pattern of ...
Empirical research on cities starts with a spatial equilibrium condition: workers and firms are assu...
What can urban policy do to improve the economic performance of Britain’s cities? Henry Overman, dir...
This paper considers the relationship between city-size and growth in a UK context. This has a numbe...
Policy-makers and academics frequently emphasize a positive link between city size and economic grow...
More than 80 percent of Americans live in urban areas, and cities are the source of much of the coun...
Thanks to everyone who attended my LSE works public lecture last Thursday. Podcast and slides are av...
This paper examines the link between average city size and aggregate economic growth in a total of 1...
The size distribution of cities in many countries follows some broadly regular patterns. Any good th...
Yesterday's depressing economic growth figures, Tuesday's announcement by Greg Clark on city mayors ...
Urbanization economies – the effects on productivity and utility created endogenously by larger citi...
In the UK, the increasingly dominant assumption is that the big cities are the motor of regional eco...
Measures of urban productivity are typically positively associated with city population. But is this...
In the last 15 years, empirical evidence has emerged about the fact that European first-rank cities ...
In the UK, the increasingly dominant assumption is that the big cities are the motor of regional eco...
Urban growth refers to the process of growth and decline of economic agglomerations. The pattern of ...
Empirical research on cities starts with a spatial equilibrium condition: workers and firms are assu...
What can urban policy do to improve the economic performance of Britain’s cities? Henry Overman, dir...
This paper considers the relationship between city-size and growth in a UK context. This has a numbe...