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Affordable electricity in a single pro-market policy 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
Feb 95 min read
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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...
Feb 2, 20234 min read
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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...
Nov 21, 20226 min read
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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...
Sep 4, 20184 min read
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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...
Jul 11, 20183 min read
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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...
Jul 1, 20184 min read
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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...
Nov 27, 20175 min read
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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...
Nov 22, 20171 min read
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