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SUMMARY:‘A marvellous order’: the spatial and economic structures that ma
 ke agglomeration economies work in Greater Manchester
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for Manchester Institute of Innovation Research Semin
 ar Series 20/21\, webinar hosted by Francesca Froy\, Research Associate 
 at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.\n\nTo join this 
 webinar\, please sign up via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/
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 ts-132246469751\n\n‘A marvellous order’: the spatial and economic struct
 ures that make agglomeration economies work in Greater Manchester\n\nJan
 e Jacobs used the phrase ‘a marvellous order’ to describe the organised 
 complexity which exists in cities. In this presentation Francesca Froy w
 ill unpack the spatial and economic configurations that help cities such
  as Greater Manchester to function as ‘engines of creativity’ in the bro
 adest sense. While urban economies are celebrated for their economic div
 ersity\, this diversity is not random\, with certain industry sectors be
 ing more likely to interrelate with each other\, and share skills\, know
 ledge\, and products. In parallel\, the configurational characteristics 
 of the street network helps to bring these diverse economic capabilities
  within instrumental reach of each other\, producing and reproducing an 
 interrelated city economy. Francesca’s research reveals an overall decli
 ne in the capacity of the Greater Manchester’s street network to support
  agglomeration externalities over time\, with emerging implications for 
 policy makers.\n\nFrancesca Froy is a Research Associate at the UCL Inst
 itute for Innovation and Public Purpose\, who also lectures at the Bartl
 ett School of Planning. Her research centres on the use of network theor
 y to better understand economic diversity and complexity. She also explo
 res the morphology of street networks in cities using a tool called Spac
 e Syntax. Until June 2015 she was a senior policy analyst at the Organis
 ation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) where she coordina
 ted international reviews of government policies to support local and re
 gional economic development. She is working on a series of Alan Turing I
 nstitute projects looking at skills-diversification in cities\, and rece
 ntly guest-edited a Special Edition of the Local Economy Journal focused
  on place-based industrial strategies. Her articles can be found in a nu
 mber of peer-reviewed academic journals including the Oxford Review of E
 conomic Policy and the European Planning Journal.
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