The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
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 »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 »Change in creative vs. non-tradable jobs, UK urban travel to work areas, 1998–2018Creative and cultural industries are very urbanised. What are the impacts of these creative clusters on their surrounding cities?In a new open access paper with Diana, Ta…
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 »Did the Tech City cluster programme actually help East London tech firms? Let’s find out.Continue reading on The Startup »
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 »The original Silicon Roundabout. © Matt BiddulphI have a new paper out in the Journal of Economic Geography, written with Emma Vandore and Georgina Voss.It draws on 10 years of fieldwork by the three of us, and looks at tech clusters, specifically how …
Continue reading »© Andy GilmoreA What Works Centre piece, part of our industrial strategy design guide.It features in our 10 Principles report, which forms the centrepiece of a major programme of work with central and local decisionmakers in 2018 and 2019.As a fast rev…
Continue reading »Design principles for a West Midlands local industrial strategyHere’s something I wrote for the 2018 Birmingham Economic Review, produced by my colleagues at City-REDI.In the UK, like many other countries, industrial strategy has been back on the polic…
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…
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