IGC Cities that Work
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Cities that Work is an IGC initiative that works to translate economic research and insight into clear urban policy guidance. Tweets posted by @oliverjharman
University of Oxford
Joined October 2018
More good stuff happening in the urban field.
Don't forget to apply for the Venice Summer Institute 2025: Big Data in Urban Economics. Submission deadline is Feb 9th!
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Promoting this great initiative for early-career women in economic geography and spatial economics. (Hopefully it does not take away from our own conference self promotion!)
🚀 Early-career women in Economic Geography & Spatial Economics - join us at LSE for WECW-EGSE (12–13 May 2025) 📊 Apply by 1 March! Send a 2-page abstract to e.renzullo@lse.ac.uk (Subject: WECW-EGSE) @Ele_ren94 @crescenzi_r 🔗 More info
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Preregistration for the Urbanisation and Development Conference now open! The 9th edition is the first time our conference will take place outside Washington DC (in Cape Town no less) and the programme is 🔥🔥🔥
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Call for applications: Winter School on Urban and Regional Economics in Africa (Cape Town, June 2025) Please share and promote! (Very happy to have put this together with our partners☺️--sponsorship available...) ❤️🏙️🌍
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RT @yakamajones: Calling all city networks! @BloombergDotOrg 's Global Mayors Challenge for 2025 is open. $25 million is up for grabs. Each…
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'The main thing I've taken from Environment Week is how important local communities are to policymakers in [developing] countries' 😃
#COP29 commences today in Baku 🌍🌿 Addressing the #climatecrisis requires sustainable #economics research to guide climate action – and #LSEEnvironmentWeek @LSEnews provides a unique opportunity for policymakers and researchers to co-generate impactful research agendas 📽️📺
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RT @The_IGC: The #callforpapers for the 9th Urbanization and Development Conference has been extended to 18 November 2024 🚨 Does your rese…
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We were out-urban'd by the World Urban Forum (@WUF_UNHabitat). Time to go home... A glorious few days of reigniting old friendships and igniting new frenemies. It's not always easy being the *only* economists in the room!
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New Album coming soon. 'Hotelling California' released 2025.
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🚿🧼🫧 Feeling FRESH with our new webpages! Check them out for all* your urban policy needs. *That we have been able to write, using economics as a framework.
This #WorldCitiesDay, we're excited to launch @IGC_CtW's new webpages 💡 Meet the initiative that's advancing a new approach to urban policy development, explore their work, events and training opportunities, and more! Discover now 🔽
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Please come visit us next week at the @WUF_UNHabitat to discuss how we work policymakers in developing countries to promote inclusive and sustainable growth through pathbreaking research. (Or also chat more generally about cities)
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Feeling 🫶 from @The_IGC with a thread of our work to mark World Cities Day!
To mark the end of #UrbanOctober, we're highlighting @IGC_CtW. Read this thread to hear about their research, insights and engagements 🧵
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The extent of our design skills when our communications team is busy. (Come see us in Cairo and we can talk urban economics instead!)
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✅At the World Urban Forum @WUF_UNHabitat? ✅Have a policy issue? ✅Want to see how potentially outcomes can be modeled by economics & data? Well join us Introduce the Cities Spatial Model on Thursday 5th!
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Three Michelin Star Menu of Urban Economics
This Friday, we are hosting the Cities and Development conference. It will be streamed. When we started this in 2016, it was barely a field in econ. Amazing work is now happening, but cities are still underrated. If you're in Cambridge and want to come, send me a DM for info.
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A fun (and informative) video for a Friday -- hear why you might want to join us in Cape Town!
Submit your papers for the 9th Urbanization and Development Conference in Cape Town! @TerrefeJ and @JOliveiraCunha provide a glimpse of 2024's edition in Washington DC, speaking to @yakisawyerr, @fabalbav, Ed Glaeser, and Abou Bakarr Kamara 📺
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Of HUGE interest to young scholars: ☺️
Of potential interest to young scholars: Young Urban Economist Workshop at Presenters will receive feedback on their papers from one of the academic keynotes: Matt Turner, Kelsey Jack, Ed Glaeser. Funding for travel and accommodation available.
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