ERSA Congress:
New Challenges for European Regions and Urban Areas in a Globalised World

High Level Session: The Big Thinkers & The Big Five in one day

The New Urban World. 'A String of Big Apples'

Chair: Karima Kourtit, Rapporteur: Ana Maria Fuertes
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

URBAN SPIKY WORLD: Between buzz and archipelago economies

Daniel Shefer:
URBAN MIDDLE EAST: Spatial Inequality Between and Within Urban Areas

Hermanus Geyer:
URBAN AFRICA: Challenges of the Cosmopolis will Face in the Future: A view from above and below - high and low road options

Hugo Priemus:
URBAN DUTCH: Synergy Between Transport Infrastructures and Cities.
Towards a Higher Productivity of the Economy

Mark Partridge:
URBAN AMERICA: Rising Inequality in an Age of Austerity

30th August - 3rd September 2011
Aula Magna, Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona (UB)