American cities with rail transit are more likely to attract well-educated young people to live centrally
How do you get from A to B every day? For many Americans, the answer to that question is some form of public transport. In new research Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf examines how transit provision can influence the shape of America’s cities. She finds that cities with urban rail transit were more likely to have a higher proportion of college-educated […]
How cities can avoid the pitfalls of ‘beauty contests’ to attract multinational investment
How cities can avoid the pitfalls of ‘beauty contests’ to attract multinational investment
EU and UK cities need an evidence-based diagnosis of their ‘unique selling points’, writes Riccardo Crescenzi.
What drives foreign investment to some cities and regions of the world, but leaves others almost completely untouched? And what can cities and regions do in order to attract those investments?
Traditionally, scholars have tried to understand this by looking at things like market access, […]