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  • working papers

    • ‘The Long Term Impacts of Migration in UK cities: Diversity, Wages, Employment and Prices’ (Feb 2010 draft)
      ‘The Economics of Superdiversity: Evidence from British Cities, 2001-6’ (March 2010 draft)
      ‘Does Cultural Diversity Help Innovation in Cities? Evidence from London firms’ (with Neil Lee) (April 2010 draft)


  • journal articles

    • 'Cultural Diversity and Innovation in London: Evidence from firm-level data', IJKBD (2010)
      'Innovation and the City', IMPP (2008)
      ‘The Wrong Stuff: Creative Class theory in UK cities’, Canadian Journal of Regional Science (2007)
      ‘Beyond City Living’, Built Environment (2006)


  • book chapters

    • 'Fixing Broken Suburbs', Smith Institute/HCA (2009)
      ‘Creative Class Theory and Economic Performance in UK Cities’, Hershey IGI (2008)
      ‘Wrong in the Right Way?’, Institute of Network Cultures (2007)


  • conference, seminar presentations

    • 'Does cultural diversity help innovation? Evidence from London firms', AAG conference (2010)
      ‘The Long Term Impacts of Migration in UK cities’, NARSC conference (2009)
      'Counting Cranes: Economic Geography and Urban Housing Markets', UCL workshop (2008)
      'Open Cities: Exploring Cultural/Ethnic Diversity', ERSA conference (2008)
      'Does Diversity Make Cities More Prosperous?', ICC conference (2008)
      ‘Who Lives Here? Cities, Housing, Planning’, LSE/CABE Wworkshop (2007)
      ‘The State of the Office’, RSA Lecture (2002)
      ‘Employment, Place and Identity: A Study of Hypermobile Professionals’, TWF (2001)


  • policy reports

    • Your Place or Mine: The local economics of migration, ippr (2008)
      ‘A Question of Balance: Cities, Planning and the Barker Review’, CfC (2007)
      Innovation and the City: Final report, NESTA/CfC (2007)
      ‘UK Cities in the World: 2008 and Beyond’, CfC (2007)
      What Role do Cities Play in Innovation? NESTA/CfC (2007)
      City People: City centre living in the UK, CfC (2006)
      ‘Them and Us: Britain and the European City’, CfC (2006)
      Would You Live Here? Making the Growth Areas communities of choice, ippr (2006)
      ‘The Wrong Stuff: Creative Class Theory, Diversity and City Performance’, CfC (2005)
      Marks & Start: Opening the door to employment? TWF (2004)
      Getting By, Not Getting On: Technology in UK workplaces, TWF (2003)
      Mobile UK: Mobile phones in everyday life, TWF (2003)
      Welcome To The Ideopolis, TWF (2003)
      Manchester: Ideopolis? TWF (2002)
      Reality IT: Technology in everyday life, TWF (2002)


  • reviews and journalism

    • 'Mixing It', Prospect (2008)
      Review of World City, by Doreen Massey, Renewal (2008)
      Review of Jigsaw Cities by Anne Power and John Haughton, JURR (2007)
      ‘Tightening the Green Belt’, Prospect (2007)
      ‘Manchester’s Vision’, Prospect (2006)




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