This contribution looks at how great-city working life and business are increasingly oriented towards the activities in high-added-value trades 'opaque' markets, where face-to-face interactions still a vital part of what they offer. It argues that whilst pandemic has undoubtedly hit hard, its longer-term impacts should not be over-stressed: world cities look set for continued dominance, central...

This paper reviews trends in cycling levels, safety, and policies in Canada and the USA over the past two decades. We analyze aggregate data for the two countries as well as cityspecific case study data for nine large cities (Chicago, Minneapolis, Montréal, New York, Portland, San Francisco, Toronto, Vancouver, and Washington). Cycling levels have increased in both the USA and Canada, while cyc...

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Being largely diversified along the urban–rural gradient, fertility gaps have demonstrated to fuel metropolitan expansion, contributing natural population growth and social change. In this direction, dynamics economic transformations continuously shaped urban cycles in Europe. Assuming suburban be a relevant engine of growth, present study investigates discusses intrinsic relationship between t...

Urban labor markets are characterized by the spatial proximity of households and businesses, which offers firms and workers advantages that lead to more efficient markets, enhanced productivity, and greater economic success. Nevertheless, the nation's city, while generating a large proportion of the nation's wealth, houses much of the nation's economic disadvantaged workers. This paper describe...

Over the past 25 years there has been a dramatic decline in the number of quality jobs located in central cities. This has disproportionately had an adverse impact on the economic prospects of AfricanAmericans. One issue that has been neglected by most urban poverty researchers is the reasons why firms move. Using data from a representative sample of employers in Boston, Atlanta, Los Angeles, a...