City planning MA curriculum
What should we teach people who want to be urban planners? with current issues, I propose to enhance as much as possible the toolkit with which our graduates will face their professional world – GIS, statistics, economics, law…
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I am home from recruiting MBA students in Dubai and Cairo. Cairo is one of the greatest cities I have ever visited; the architecture, street life, and, oh yes, the antiquities are beyond compare. The people there were exceptionally
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Counter-Economics
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When Bioterrorism was no big deal
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Reducing Big City Traffic Congestion: Lessons from London
Jonathan Leape of the LSE has written a very nice paper on the London Congestion Charge for the Journal of Economic Perspectives. This paper goes into detail about the challenges of implementing a central london congestion charge

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