methods of Spatial Analysis of GIS technology. Spatial Analysis focuses on evaluating existing and proposed models of spatial … organization, while GIS, provide the necessary informational tools for the elaboration and management of the relevant information …

British cities are becoming more culturally diverse, with migration a main driver. Is this growing diversity good for … urban economies? This paper explores, using a new 16-year panel of UK cities. Over time, net migration affects both local …, suggest both processes are operating in British cities. Long-term industrial decline and casualisation of entry-level jobs …

Richard Florida’s ‘creative class’ theory suggests that diverse, tolerant, ‘cool’ cities will outperform others. Ethnic … cities get the best jobs and most dynamic companies. This paper examines Florida’s ideas, focusing on the evidence in British … cities. Drawing on previously published work, it first tests the Florida model on a set of British cities, finding weak …

, expressed in logarithmic form, of several classes of cities. …

Empirical studies consistently report that labour productivity and TFP rise with city size. The reason is that cities … allow for a detailed investigation of when cities emerge, what determines their size, and how they interact through the … distinctive equilibrium features of our model. We show, in particular, that larger cities are both more productive and more …

We develop a diagrammatic framework that can be used to study the economic linkages between regions or cities. Hitherto …