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Podcast: how creative industries drive urban economies

Posted on Tuesday 25 October 2022 by Max Nathan

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…

Cities, creativity, economic-development, public-policy, urban planning

Creative clusters and creative multipliers

Posted on Wednesday 17 August 2022 by Max Nathan

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…

Clustering, creativity, economic-development, public-policy, urban planning

Podcast: does cluster policy work?

Posted on Tuesday 18 February 2020 by Max Nathan

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…

Cities, economics, public-policy, urban planning, urbanism

I’m moving to UCL

Posted on Monday 5 August 2019 by Max Nathan

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…

economics, innovation, public-policy, urban planning, urbanism