Overman, Henry G. 
ORCID: 0000-0002-3525-7629
(2015)
Transport for the North and the Northern Power House.
Spatial Economics Research Centre Blog
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[Posted by Prof Henry G. Overman] Last November, at an event in Leeds with the Deputy Prime Minister, I expressed some scepticism that transport investment across the North would create a Northern Power House. I argued that two pieces of evidence about city success urge greater caution: 1) The evidence on agglomeration economies - i.e. on the factors that underpin the success of cities - suggest that these decay quite strongly with distance. So a key part of London's success, for example, comes from the very high employment densities in central London. 2) A crucial driver of city success is the concentration of high skilled workers that are found in our most successful cities.
| Item Type: | Online resource (Website) |
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| Official URL: | http://spatial-economics.blogspot.co.uk/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2015 The Author(s) |
| Divisions: | Spatial Economics Research Centre Centre for Economic Performance What Works Centre |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications J Political Science > JC Political theory |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Jun 2017 11:10 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Oct 2023 23:39 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/82571 |
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