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Max Nathan

New paper: do creative clusters lead to gentrification?

Cities often use creative activity to promote growth. Many creatives worry that this just gentrifies places instead. Who’s right?

2 min readSep 12, 2023

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New paper: do creative clusters lead to gentrification?

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Max Nathan

Crypto Cities, and DAOs in particular

How could local governments experiment with blockchains and online organisations?

4 min readAug 22, 2023

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Crypto Cities, and DAOs in particular

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Max Nathan

Things We Don’t Want to Know?

We all say we want evidence-based policy; so why is there little good evaluation evidence about, and why are we often reluctant to use it?

3 min readJul 13, 2023

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Things We Don’t Want to Know?

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Max Nathan

GEOINNO 2024: send us your papers!

I’m co-organising two special sessions at GEOINNO: on immigration, diversity and innovation, and on hybrid working. Send us your papers!

1 min readJun 5, 2023

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GEOINNO 2024: send us your papers!

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Max Nathan

Time capsules

New/old paper news: I’m very happy to have the lead article in this Urban Studies special issue on COVID-19 and cities. It’s open access!

1 min readJun 2, 2023

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Time capsules

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Max Nathan

Podcast: how creative industries drive urban economies

A City Talks podcast on creative industries and cities with Eliza Easton (Creative PEC) and Centre for Cities CEO Andrew Carter.

1 min readOct 25, 2022

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Podcast: how creative industries drive urban economies

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Max Nathan

Come and work with me

Job alert! I am recruiting an economist and a data scientist to join my new UKRI-funded project. We’re looking at the effects of…

1 min readOct 6, 2022

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Come and work with me

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Max Nathan

Creative clusters and creative multipliers

Creative industries cluster in cities. What are the economic impacts of these creative clusters on their surrounding urban areas?

4 min readAug 17, 2022

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Creative clusters and creative multipliers

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Max Nathan

New paper: Modelling clusters from the ground up

I have a new clusters paper out, open access, written with Emmanouil Tranos and Christoph Stich. Here’s a run-through.

2 min readJul 14, 2022

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New paper: Modelling clusters from the ground up

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Max Nathan

A big new ESRC grant

I’ve won a 3-year ESRC grant to study the economic effects of diversity in UK firms and cities. Here’s a summary of what we’ll be doing.

3 min readMar 25, 2022

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A big new ESRC grant

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Max Nathan

Max Nathan

UCL & CEP. Co-founder @centreforcities & @whatworksgrowth. Urbanism, economics, innovation, migration and public policy. My views. I’m at max-nathan.github.io.

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