# Measuring Up Cities

- 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](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/series/measuring-cities)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-measuring-cities/324ab7755d36) (YouTube)
2. [Concluding Remarks for Measuring Up Cities](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-measuring-cities/775d96b6e219) (YouTube)
3. [Counting What Counts or (Simply) Measuring the Measurable?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-measuring-cities/6c1d2a086095) (YouTube)
4. [Firm Migration - The Neglected Component of Change](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-measuring-cities/04cae1c59847) (YouTube)
5. [Introduction to Long Finance Symposium "Measuring Up Cities"](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-measuring-cities/dec450779da1) (YouTube)
6. [Measuring Up Cities: Rough Around The Edges? (Panel Discussion)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-measuring-cities/e9b8561779ba) (YouTube)
7. [Tomorrow's Cities](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-measuring-cities/fae9500df8dd) (YouTube)
8. [Towards the Scientific Theory of Cities](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-measuring-cities/2d51cc5dfafa) (YouTube)