Showing posts with label Public Lecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Public Lecture. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Glaeser on The Happiness of Cities

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Ed Glaeser has recently delivered an interesting talk at LSE about happiness and cities. ps. On a similar topic, here is a great pape...
Tuesday, February 5, 2013

The Economic Future of British Cities

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Prof Henry Overman (SERC / LSE)  gave a very interesting lecture a couple of weeks ago. The lecture was titled ' The Economic Future o...
Tuesday, January 8, 2013

MRU short videos on Migration

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Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok (from MR Blog ) have a few excellent short videos on Migration as a part of their Development Economics cour...
Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Podcast List updated

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I have just updated the Podcasts list on the right column of this blog. Take a look. Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COM...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

The invention of GPS

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He starts talking about the GPS invention at 12:10.
Monday, May 21, 2012

Assorted Links

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Population Association of America (PAA) on the elimination of the American Community Survey Prof. Michael Sandel will be in London for a ...
Monday, February 13, 2012

The Naked City public lecture

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Renowned sociologist Sharon Zukin  discussed her latest book at LSE  "The Naked City: the death and life of authentic urban places...
Monday, January 30, 2012

Replay: Counterintuitive trues about urban transport

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Enrique Peñalosa  (former mayor of Bogotá) presented a pleasant lecture at LSE titled:  “ Politics, Power, Cities ” .  Listen to podcast   h...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Recommended Podcasts

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We are opening a new session on the right column of this blog with  ‘ recommended Podcasts ’.  I usually listen to them on my daily walki...
Monday, October 31, 2011

The Laws of Migration illustrated

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Waldo Tobler presents a three-minute short talk about Ravenstein (the author behind  (the Laws of Migration, 1885 ). (via Michael Batty ...
Monday, August 29, 2011

Urban Africa

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Edgar Pieterse (African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town) talks about African Urbanism at LSE - available as youtube vide...
Saturday, August 6, 2011

The death of distance and the rise of cities

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Glaeser gave this lecture on November 13, 2008, at LSE. This event marked the launch of the Spatial Economics Research Centre . He sta...
Monday, June 13, 2011

Seminars on Population Studies at Cedeplar

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Cedeplar (Center for Regional Development and Planning) is one of the main institutes for demographic and economic research in Brazil. The ...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Assorted Links

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The Brookings Papers are now entirely open access (via Freakonomics . Hat Tip: MR ) Glaeser on Minority Populations Grow in the USA Edgar...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Glaeser at LSE

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Professor Glaeser presented a lecture at LSE promoting his new book "Triumph of the City" . Listen to podcast here (approx ...
Thursday, January 20, 2011

Counterintuitive trues about urban transport

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Enrique Peñalosa (former mayor of Bogotá) presented a pleasant lecture at LSE titled: “ Politics, Power, Cities ” . Listen to podcast her...