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Measuring Up Cities

Professor Tony Travers and others · Gresham College

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About

Professor Tony Travers is the Director of LSE London, the London School of Economics' research centre. There are very few people more intimately acquainted with the capital. In this Lecture, part of the Long Finance Symposium 'Measuring Up Cities', Professor Travers looks at the history of competition between cities. He also introduces the forms of data that can be collected to compare cities, as well as the intangibles that might be essential for success in competitive cities.

Lectures

  1. Competitive Cities: What we can measure and What we can't 2014-01-30 · YouTube
  2. Concluding Remarks for Measuring Up Cities 2014-01-30 · YouTube
  3. Counting What Counts or (Simply) Measuring the Measurable? 2014-01-30 · YouTube
  4. Firm Migration - The Neglected Component of Change 2014-01-30 · YouTube
  5. Introduction to Long Finance Symposium "Measuring Up Cities" 2014-01-30 · YouTube
  6. Measuring Up Cities: Rough Around The Edges? (Panel Discussion) 2014-01-30 · YouTube
  7. Tomorrow's Cities 2014-01-30 · YouTube
  8. Towards the Scientific Theory of Cities 2014-01-30 · YouTube

Credits and licence

Institution
Gresham College
Taught by
Professor Tony Travers, Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli, Dr Laura Davison, Martin Houghton, Dr Hyejin Youn, Dame Fiona Woolf
Year
2014
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Earth and environment, Economics, Business and management, Society and politics, Philosophy
Source
Gresham College
Licence
Educational use (Gresham College's terms), as Gresham College states it. Gresham College's terms
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