Three Michelin Star Menu of Urban Economics

✅At the World Urban Forum World Urban Forum? ✅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! wuf.unhabitat.org/event/wuf12/in…

🆕The role of cities in economic development For the first episode of a mini-series of VoxDevTalks covering the BREAD-International Growth Centre virtual PhD-level course on urban economics Edward Glaeser Harvard Department of Economics & Diego Puga CEMFI speak to Tim Phillips Talk Normal: voxdev.org/topic/migratio…

The extent of our design skills when our communications team is busy. (Come see us in Cairo and we can talk urban economics instead!)

Feeling 🫶 from International Growth Centre with a thread of our work to mark World Cities Day!

Please come visit us next week at the World Urban Forum 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)

🚿🧼🫧 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.

Talking urban economics to the Mayors and/or Profs of tomorrow World Urban Forum WUF12Egypt International Growth Centre

New Album coming soon. 'Hotelling California' released 2025.

We were out-urban'd by the World Urban Forum (World Urban Forum). 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!

The #callforpapers for the 9th Urbanization and Development Conference has been extended to 18 November 2024 🚨 Does your research focus on #housing, #transport, municipal governance, #adaptation, mitigation, or similar themes in cities? Apply now 🌃👇 theigc.org/events/9th-urb…

'The main thing I've taken from Environment Week is how important local communities are to policymakers in [developing] countries' 😃

Calling all city networks! Bloomberg Philanthropies 's Global Mayors Challenge for 2025 is open. $25 million is up for grabs. Each winning city will get $1m to implement an innovative project to improve the lives of their citizens. Please share this message with Mayors, Governors, Local

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...) ❤️🏙️🌍 econrsa.org/events/call-fo…

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 🔥🔥🔥 worldbank.org/en/events/2025…

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!)

More good stuff happening in the urban field.

🚨Only 2 days left to register! Join leading experts at the 9th Urbanization & Development Conference in Cape Town to tackle Africa’s urban challenges. 📅Pre-registration closes on 14 March! worldbank.org/en/events/2025… #UrbanEconomics #Urbanization IGC Cities that Work youtube.com/watch?v=szQbPL…

📜improving property titling in Africa’s cities with community information and better targeted fees new VoxDev article with Martina IIEP at GWU IGC Cities that Work

📹 A few highlights from yesterday, kicking off the second half of the Professional Diploma program at the Africa Urban Lab. Excited to be back with our students and geeking out on all things cities! 🏙️✨