{"id":6340,"date":"2012-10-15T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=6340"},"modified":"2012-12-29T01:36:52","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T06:36:52","slug":"does-europe-need-bigger-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/does-europe-need-bigger-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Europe Need Bigger Cities?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/101512_0227_DoesEuropeN1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"566\" \/><\/p>\n<p>America and Europe have roughly similar population levels. Yet Europe&#8217;s per person GDP is just 72% of America&#8217;s. The Economist argued that the size of Europe&#8217;s cities might be to blame:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>America&#8217;s largest cities house 164 million people. In Europe it is just 102 million.<\/li>\n<li>Cities are important for economic growth because there is knowledge spillover within them. When one person or company finds a new, more efficient way to do something, others soon copy it.<\/li>\n<li>They are also important because today&#8217;s innovations requires experts from various different fields to come together, and this is easier to do in a city.<\/li>\n<li>Europe&#8217;s cities may have remained small because of regulations. Zoning laws might help explain it. Linguistic barriers across Europe might also be a contributing factor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about what happens when a prominent researcher moves to a different city, how American cities compare to European ones, and what this means for Europe over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/21564536\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/21564536\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America and Europe have roughly similar population levels. Yet Europe&#8217;s per person GDP is just 72% of America&#8217;s. The Economist argued that the size of Europe&#8217;s cities might be to blame: America&#8217;s largest cities house 164 million people. In Europe it is just 102 million. Cities are important for economic growth because there is knowledge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","category-signature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/101512_0227_DoesEuropeN1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6340"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6347,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6340\/revisions\/6347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}