06 Dec 2017 | 5pm | Urban Dynamics And The Urban Economy | Clémentine Cottineau

Urban Dynamics And The Urban Economy: Where Do Businesses Go And What Do Devolved Authorities Plan About It?

During this seminar, Clémentine will present her contribution to the Urban Dynamics Labs project (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/urban-dynamics-lab). This involves a study of the trajectory of businesses in a set of UK cities over the past dozen years, using the ONS Business Structure Database. The establishments of all the enterprises which are PAYE employers or VAT traders are tracked geographically so as to understand the spatial dynamics of creation, destruction and migration of businesses in cities as well as the drivers of these dynamics in the built and social environment of the city. She will present a way to conduct a geo-industrial clustering of establishments, using a percolation method developed with Elsa Arcaute (UCL) and Max Nathan (LSE). She will also consider the recent strategic economic plans of devolved authorities, to compare the observed dynamics of business with the way devolved cities plan to deal with it. The latter analysis was done in collaboration with Carina Schneider (UCL).

Dr. Clémentine Cottineau is a research associate at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London (UCL). She studied geography and economics at University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and holds a PhD in geography from the same university. Her thesis aimed at modelling urbanisation in the post-Soviet space. Since 2014, she has been working at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis on urban economics and scaling in the context of European systems of cities, using tools from complexity science to investigate inequality in cities and economic disparities between cities.

She tweets @ClementienCttn