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We are pleased to announce the publication of our new book – Cities in the Metaverse: Spatial Computing, Digital Twins, Avatars, Economics and Digital Habitation on the New Frontier and…
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Continue reading »Time capsules usually stay sealed, but I’m happy this one is open. Sleep Walk Sleep Talk is Suki Chan’s atmospheric film essay on post-crash London. Shot in 2009, it’s back online at FVU for the next month.Suki’s film combines beautiful images of Londo…
Continue reading »Time capsules usually stay sealed, but I’m happy this one is open. Sleep Walk Sleep Talk is Suki Chan’s atmospheric film essay on post-crash London. Shot in 2009, it’s back online at FVU for the next month.Suki’s film combines beautiful images of Londo…
Continue reading »Time capsules usually stay sealed, but I’m happy this one is open. Sleep Walk Sleep Talk is Suki Chan’s atmospheric film essay on post-crash London. Shot in 2009, it’s back online at FVU for the next month.Suki’s film combines beautiful images of Londo…
Continue reading »Time capsules usually stay sealed, but I’m happy this one is open. Sleep Walk Sleep Talk is Suki Chan’s atmospheric film essay on post-crash London. Shot in 2009, it’s back online at FVU for the next month.Suki’s film combines beautiful images of Londo…
Continue reading »Do migrants, and urban diversity, help seed new ideas? Tom, Ceren, Abi and I have written an overview of the field.It’s part of this excellent new book on migration and innovation, edited by Francesco Lissoni and Andrea Morrison, featuring many stellar…
Continue reading »Urban economists vs. economic geographers, and economic geographers vs. themselvesLast month Neil Lee, Helen Simpson and I recorded a Centre for Cities podcast on the state of urban economic research, expertly helmed by CFC boss Andrew Carter.Two big t…
Continue reading »I have a new City Talks podcast with Helen Simpson (University of Bristol), Neil Lee (LSE) and Centre for Cities CEO Andrew Carter.We take on a big question: what is the state of research about urban economies? We talk about the huge growth of urban ec…
Continue reading »In the past, this blog has explored several aspects of Detroit, such as how well its covered with Volunteered Street View Imagery or how through the use of agent-based models one can explore issues with urban shrinkage. Keeping up with the theme of shr…
Continue reading »© The Wick 2020A lot of cities try to promote creative activity as a tool for economic growth. A lot of creatives — and activists — worry that arts districts and the like are simply the first step to gentrification, pushing out the original artists as …
Continue reading »Summer is a good time for academics to catch up on reading, and I’ve finally found time to go through this v interesting post on Crypto Cities by Vitalik Bukterin, who is always worth your time. (It’s also helpful for the Smart Cities course I teach at…
Continue reading »The Thick of It, BBC TV (2012)As researchers and policymakers, we all say we want evidence-based policy; so why is there little good evaluation evidence about, and why do many decision-makers seem reluctant to use it?I’m back from a trip to Paris, wher…
Continue reading »GEOINNO has become an essential conference for the large community of researchers working at the intersections of urban economics, networks / complexity analysis, economic geography and the economics of innovation. I’m very happy to see Manchester host…
Continue reading »London, April 2020.New/old paper news: I’m very happy to have the lead article in this Urban Studies special issue on COVID-19 and cities. It’s open access!Many thanks to Scott Orford, Yingling Fan and Phil Hubbard for having me.This article is a time …
Continue reading »I have a new City Talks podcast with Eliza Easton (Deputy Director of the Creative PEC) and Centre for Cities CEO Andrew Carter. We talk about creative clusters, whether creative industries drive city growth, and what policymakers can do to help.The po…
Continue reading »Some self-promotion — a team I’m leading has won one of seven new big ESRC grants for productivity research.Our new project will explore the economic effects of diverse teams and workplaces — and the wider role of urban diversity — on entrepreneurship,…
Continue reading »Some self-promotion — a team I’m leading has won one of seven new big ESRC grants for productivity research.Our new project will explore the economic effects of diverse teams and workplaces — and the wider role of urban diversity — on entrepreneurship,…
Continue reading »I haven’t read the Levelling Up White Paper yet but I’m going to talk about it anyway.I haven’t read it yet because it’s very long, I’m quite busy with other things right now — it’s a busy teaching term — and because many smart people have read and sum…
Continue reading »I haven’t read the Levelling Up White Paper but I’m going to talk about it anyway.I haven’t read it because it’s very long, like many of you I’m quite busy with other things right now, and because many smart people have read and summarised it already.B…
Continue reading »The City and the Virus, reduxI’ve got a new paper on COVID-19 and cities published in Urban Studies. You can read the whole thing here: it’s open access.I say new — it’s actually an extensive update and rebuild of this long blogpost I did in 2020. Not …
Continue reading »We have just wrapped up project that created a simple agent-based simulation of urban life as part of DARPA’s Ground Truth Program. To this end we have just published a new paper entitled “Urban life: a model of people and places” published in C…
Continue reading »We have just wrapped up project that created a simple agent-based simulation of urban life as part of DARPA’s Ground Truth Program. To this end we have just published a new paper entitled “Urban life: a model of people and places” published in C…
Continue reading »With more and more people living in urban areas and the current COVID pandemic, human mobility within cities has changed. With this change there is a a growing debate about what it would take to make cities more accessible. For example, what wou…
Continue reading »With more and more people living in urban areas and the current COVID pandemic, human mobility within cities has changed. With this change there is a a growing debate about what it would take to make cities more accessible. For example, what wou…
Continue reading »The lovely people at the KooZA/rch platform have published an interview with me, on the theme of the ‘deactivated city’: how COVID-19 has altered urban form and processes, and how far these changes might stick around.They’ve also added some superb phot…
Continue reading »Incubators, accelerators and urban economic developmentI’ve got a new paper on incubators, accelerators and cities out in Urban Studies. It’s written with Margarida Madaleno, Henry Overman and Sevrin Waights.Why should you read it? I think there’s four…
Continue reading »Turning our attention back to agent-based modeling, in the recently open access edited volume by Wenzhong Shi, Michael Goodchild, Michael Batty, Mei-Po Kwan and Anshu Zhang entitled Urban Informatics, Alison Heppenstall, Nick Malleson, Ed Manley and my…
Continue reading »Turning our attention back to agent-based modeling, in the recently open access edited volume by Wenzhong Shi, Michael Goodchild, Michael Batty, Mei-Po Kwan and Anshu Zhang entitled Urban Informatics, Alison Heppenstall, Nick Malleson, Ed Manley and my…
Continue reading »It is not often that I get to give a talk in one country and tutorial in another country, but thanks to COVID and the internet, that was today. First up I was invited to give a talk to the GIScience Research Group (GIScRG) at the Royal Geographical Soc…
Continue reading »It is not often that I get to give a talk in one country and tutorial in another country, but thanks to COVID and the internet, that was today. First up I was invited to give a talk to the GIScience Research Group (GIScRG) at the Royal Geographical Soc…
Continue reading »While we are witnessing a growth in the world-wide urban population, not all cities are growing equally and some are actually shrinking (e.g., Leipzig in Germany; Urumqi in China; and Detroit in the United States). Such shrinking cities pose a signific…
Continue reading »While we are witnessing a growth in the world-wide urban population, not all cities are growing equally and some are actually shrinking (e.g., Leipzig in Germany; Urumqi in China; and Detroit in the United States). Such shrinking cities pose a signific…
Continue reading »Will coronavirus cause a big city exodus? A long read.Continue reading on Medium »
Continue reading »Cities are the epicentres of the coronavirus pandemic. Why?Continue reading on Medium »
Continue reading »City in the Air, Arata IsozakiCentre for Cities have put up a new City Talks podcast I did with CEO Andrew Carter, talking about cities, clusters, cluster policy tools and the Tech City programme. Later on we also go into some more nerdy stuff about po…
Continue reading »© Tim Mazzarol 2014Back from Glasgow, where I’ve been at the University talking about entrepreneurial ecosystems. Many thanks to Ben Spigel and Fumi Kitagawa for inviting me, and for organising such a nice group of people.It was a pretty striking event…
Continue reading »In the current SIGSPATIAL Special Newsletter whose theme is Urban Analytics and Mobility, Joon-Seok Kim, Hamdi Kavak and myself have a paper entitled “Procedural City Generation Beyond Game Development”. In the paper we discuss how synthetic urban area…
Continue reading »In the current SIGSPATIAL Special Newsletter whose theme is Urban Analytics and Mobility, Joon-Seok Kim, Hamdi Kavak and myself have a paper entitled “Procedural City Generation Beyond Game Development”. In the paper we discuss how synthetic urban area…
Continue reading »TL,DR; the economics says Manchester.Channel 4 is moving 300 staff out of London, with most going to a major British city.* The HQ2 shortlist has just been announced, and seven city-regions are on it: Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Greate…
Continue reading »Regular readers of this site might of noticed that we have an interest in slums. In the past this has focused on modeling them from an agent-based perspective, comparing volunteered geographical information to more authoritative data on slums, to that …
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