Competitive Cities: What Can Measure & What We Can't - Professor Tony Travers
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Channel: Gresham College · 2014 · Education
Professor Tony Travers of LSE reveals the basic data that we can use in measuring cities:http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/competitive-cities-what-we-can-measure-and-what-we-cant 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. The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/competitive-cities-what-we-can-measure-and-what-we-cant Gresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. There are currently over 1,500 lectures free to access or download from the website. Website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk Twitter: http://twitter.com/GreshamCollege Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/greshamcollege
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