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Feb 95 min read
How Cities Can Unite for Energy Market Reform: The Case for Decoupling Electricity Prices from Gas
Despite renewables now providing a substantial share of electricity generation, consumers are still paying gas-inflated prices
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Feb 2, 20234 min read
A just transition
By Naji Makarem 02 February 2023 News Category: Thought Leadership A just transition is perhaps the most important fuzzy concept we must...
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Nov 21, 20226 min read
Local Action Towards Climate Resilience in Urban Areas
An additional 2.5 billion people will be a part of our world by 2050, mostly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) across Africa...
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Sep 4, 20184 min read
Why the Smartest City Solutions Put People and Environment First
There is a lot of hype around the term ‘smart city’ and its definition can be ambiguous. At UrbanEmerge, we refer to smart cities as...
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Jul 11, 20183 min read
Ethiopia’s Industrial Parks could Employ Hundreds of Thousands of Young Women
While working in Ethiopia recently I witnessed first-hand the phenomenal transformation the county is bringing about through attracting...
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Jul 1, 20184 min read
Green Urbanism in Asia: How Hangzhou in China is making Impressive Progress
In their great book ‘Green Urbanism in Asia’, Peter Newman and Anne Matan suggest that green urbanism is the recognition that cities make...
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Nov 27, 20175 min read
Friendships matter for urban economies
The culture and social structure of a metropolitan region is as important as it’s physical architecture and infrastructure, if not more...
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Nov 22, 20171 min read
The rise & fall of urban economies
In our recent co-authored book, Michael Storper, Tom Kemeny, Taner Osman and I investigate the income divergence of two advanced...
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