The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
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 »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 »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 »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 »Some job news: I’m excited to say that I’m taking up a new role at UCL in September. I’ll be a new Associate Professor in Applied Urban Sciences at the Centre for Applied Spatial Analysis (CASA), part of the Bartlett faculty of the built environment.Th…
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