Gordon, Ian


Professor Ian Gordon  

Department

Position held

Department of Geography and Environment

Professor of Human Geography

Spatial Economics Research Centre

Programme Director

Experience keywords:

migration; urban policy; regional development; applied urban economics

Media experience:

RadioTV

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)0 7955 6180

Publications

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2012

Gordon, Ian (2012) Ambition, human capital acquisition and the metropolitan escalator. Spatial Economics Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Gordon, Ian and Kaplanis, Ioannis (2012) Accounting for big city growth in low paid occupations: immigration and/or service class consumption. Spatial Economics Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Gordon, Ian (2012) London: beyond the city state. In: Ward, Michael and Hardy, Sally, (eds.) Changing gear: is localism the new regionalism?. The Smith Institute, London, UK, pp. 46-55.

2011

Whitehead, Christine M E and Edge, Anne and Gordon, Ian and Scanlon, Kathleen and Travers, Tony (2011) The impact of migration on access to housing and the housing market: a project for the Migration Advisory Committee. UK Border Agency, London, UK

Ball, Michael and Barker, Kate and Cheshire, Paul and Evans, Alan and Fernández Arrigoitia, Melissa and Gordon, Ian and Holman, Nancy and Leunig, Tim and Mace, Alan and Meen, Geoff and Monk, Sarah and Overman, Henry G. and Power, Anne and Scanlon, Kathleen and Rode, Philipp and Tonkiss, Fran and Travers, Tony and Whitehead, Christine M E (2011) The government’s planned National Planning Policy Framework is a step in the right direction, but policy makers must ensure they get the incentives right, and that decisions are made locally. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Fainstein, Susan and Gordon, Ian and Harlow, Michael (2011) Ups and downs in the global city: London and New York In the 21st century. In: Bridge, Gary and Watson, Sophie, (eds.) New Blackwell companion to the city. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, pp. 38-47. ISBN 9781405189811

Gordon, Ian (2011) London capital of boom and bust? Observatoire de la société britannique: la revue, (11). pp. 69-88.

2010

Gordon, Ian (2010) Territorial competition. In: Pike, Andy and Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés and Tomaney, John, (eds.) Handbook of Local and Regional Development. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 30-43. ISBN 9780415548311

Gordon, Ian (2010) Entropy, variety, economics, and spatial interaction. Geographical analysis, 42 (4). pp. 446-471. ISSN 1538-4632

Gordon, Ian (2010) Scenarios and planning for alternative London futures - or making a drama out of a strategy. In: Kochan, Ben and Scanlon, Kathleen, (eds.) London: coping with austerity. LSE London, London , pp. 49-56. ISBN 9780853284598

Gordon, Ian and Travers, Tony (2010) London: planning the ungovernable city. City, culture and society, 1 (2). pp. 49-55. ISSN 1877-9166

2009

Gordon, Ian and Travers, Tony and Whitehead, Christine M E and Scanlon, Kathleen (2009) London's place in the UK economy 2009-10. Corporation of London, London, UK

Gordon, Ian and Travers, Tony and Whitehead, Christine M. E. (2009) Local authorities and the downturn: a review of issues, experience and options. Spatial Economics Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Gordon, Ian and Scanlon, Kathleen and Travers, Tony and Whitehead, Christine M E (2009) Economic impact on the London and UK economy of an earned regularisation of irregular migrants to the UK. Greater London Authority , London, UK

Gordon, Ian and Haslam, Colin and McCann, Philip and Scott-Quinn, Brian (2009) Off-shoring of work and London’s sustainability as an international financial centre. In: Karlsson, Charlie and Andersson, Ake E. and Cheshire, Paul and Stough, R., (eds.) New directions in regional economic development . Springer, Dordrecht, Germany, pp. 373-384. ISBN 9783642010163

2008

Gordon, Ian and Travers, Tony and Whitehead, Christine M E (2008) London's place in the UK economy 2008-09. Corporation of London, London, UK

Cheshire, Paul and Gibbons, Stephen and Gordon, Ian (2008) Policies for 'mixed communities': a critical evaluation. Spatial Economics Research Centre, London, UK

Chien, Shiuh-Shen and Gordon, Ian (2008) Territorial competition in China and the West. Regional Studies, 42 (1). pp. 31-49. ISSN 0034-3404

2007

Gordon, Ian and Travers, Tony and Whitehead, Christine M E (2007) The impact of recent immigration on the London economy. Corporation of London, London, UK

Gordon, Ian and Monastiriotis, Vassilis (2007) Education, location, education: a spatial analysis of English secondary school public examination results. Urban studies, 44 (7). pp. 1203-1228. ISSN 0042-0980

2006

Monastiriotis, Vassilis and Gordon, Ian (2006) Education, location, education: a spatial analysis of English secondary school public examination results. LSE research papers in environmental and spatial analysis, 116. Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Gordon, Ian (2006) How should we write about London?: the Working Capital view. City, 10 (2). pp. 185-196. ISSN 1360-4813

Gordon, Ian and Monastiriotis, Vassilis (2006) Urban size, spatial segregation and inequality in educational outcomes. Urban Studies, 43 (1). pp. 213-236. ISSN 0042-0980

Gordon, Ian (2006) Finding institutional leadership for regional networks: the case of London and the Greater South East. In: Salet, Willem, (ed.) European perspectives & Randstad Holland: synergy in urban networks. SDU Publishers, Den Haag, Netherlands, pp. 136-160. ISBN 9789012112789

2005

Gordon, Ian and McCann, Philip (2005) Innovation, agglomeration and regional development. Journal of economic geography, 5 (5). pp. 523-543. ISSN 1468-2702

Gordon, Ian and Buck, Nick H (2005) Cities in the new conventional wisdom. In: Buck, Nick H and Gordon, Ian and Harding, Alan and Turok, Ivan, (eds.) Changing Cities : Rethinking Urban Competitiveness, Cohesion, and Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 1-21. ISBN 9781403906809

Gordon, Ian (2005) Integrating cities. In: Buck, Nick H and Gordon, Ian and Harding, Alan and Turok, Ivan, (eds.) Changing cities : Rethinking urban competitiveness, cohesion, and governance. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 78-93. ISBN 9781403906793

Gordon, Ian and Haslam, Colin and McCann, Philip and Scott-Quinn, Brian (2005) Off-shoring and the city of London. Corporation of London, London, UK

Gordon, Ian and Turok, Ivan (2005) How Urban Labour Markets Matter. In: Buck, Nick and Gordon, Ian and Harding, Alan and Turok, Ivan, (eds.) Changing Cities : Rethinking Urban Competitiveness, Cohesion, and Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 242-264. ISBN 9781403906793

Buck, Nick and Gordon, Ian and Harding, Alan and Turok, Ivan (2005) Conclusion: moving beyond the conventional wisdom. In: Gordon, Ian and Buck, Nick and Turok, Ivan and Harding, Alan, (eds.) Changing cities: rethinking urban competitiveness, cohesion and governance. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 265-282. ISBN 1403906807

2004

Gordon, Ian and Travers, Tony and Whitehead, Christine M E (2004) London's place in the UK economy 2004. Corporation of London, London, UK

Gordon, Ian (2004) The resurgent city: what, where, how and for whom? Planning theory and practice, 5 (3). pp. 371-379. ISSN 1464-9357

Gordon, Ian (2004) A disjointed dynamo: the greater South East and inter-regional relationships. New economy, 11 (1). pp. 40-44. ISSN 1070-3535

Buck, Nick H and Gordon, Ian (2004) Does spatial concentration of disadvantage contribute to social exclusion? In: Boddy, Martin and Parkinson, Michael, (eds.) City Matters. Policy Press, Bristol, pp. 71-92. ISBN 9781861344441

Gordon, Ian and Buck, Nick H and Hall, Peter and Harloe, Michael and Kleinman, Mark (2004) London: Competitiveness, Cohesion and the Policy Environment. In: Boddy, Martin and Parkinson, Michael, (eds.) City Matters. Policy Press, Bristol, pp. 71-92. ISBN 9781861344441

2003

Gordon, Ian (2003) Three into one: joining up the greater South East. Town and country planning, 72 (11). pp. 342-343. ISSN 0040-9960

Gordon, Ian and Travers, Tony and Whitehead, Christine M E (2003) London's place in the UK economy 2003. Corporation of London, London, UK

Monastiriotis, Vassilis and Gordon, Ian (2003) Urban size, spatial segregation and educational outcomes. LSE research papers in environmental and spatial analysis, 87. Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

2002

McCann, Philip and Arita, Tomokazu and Gordon, Ian R. (2002) Industrial clusters, transactions costs and the institutional determinants of MNE location behaviour. International business review, 11 (6). pp. 647-663. ISSN 0969-5931

Gordon, Ian and Travers, Tony and Whitehead, Christine M E and Monastiriotis, Vassilis (2002) London's place in the UK economy 2002. Corporation of London, London, UK

Gordon, Ian (2002) Regional Policy Evaluation and Labour Market Adjustment. In: Johansson, Borje and Karlsson, Charles and Stough, Roger R, (eds.) Regional Policies and Comparative Advantage. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, Northampton, MA, pp. 153-172. ISBN 9781840648348

Gordon, Ian (2002) Industrial and regional policy: a London perspective. In: Adams, Jon and Robinson, Peter, (eds.) Devolution in practice. Institute for public policy research, London, pp. 86-92. ISBN 9781860301995

Gordon, Ian (2002) Global cities, internationalisation and urban systems. In: McCann, Philip, (ed.) Industrial location economics. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 187-206. ISBN 9781843768470

Gordon, Ian (2002) Unemployment and spatial labour markets: strong adjustment and persistent concentration. In: Martin, Ron and Morrison, Philip S., (eds.) Geographies of labour market inequality. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 55-82. ISBN 0415300134

Buck, Nick and Gordon, Ian and Hall, Peter and Harloe, Michael and Kleinman, Mark (2002) Working capital: life and labour in contemporary London. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 0415279321

2001

Gordon, Ian and Cheshire, Paul (2001) Locational advantage and lessons for territorial competition in Europe. In: Johansson, Börje and Karlsson, Charlie and Stough, Roger, (eds.) Theories of endogenous regional growth. Springer, Berlin, Germany. ISBN 9783540679882

Gordon, Ian (2001) Unpacking 'competitiveness' as a governance issue for London. In: Syrett, Stephen and Baldock, Robert, (eds.) Governing London: competitiveness and regeneration for a global city. Middlesex University Press, London, UK. ISBN 9781898253457

2000

Whitehead, Christine M E and Travers, Tony and Holmans, Alan and Gordon, Ian (2000) Housing in London: future perspectives. LSE London discussion paper, 4. London School of Economics, London, UK

1998

Gordon, Ian and Low, Murray (1998) Community, locality and urban research. European planning studies, 6 (1). pp. 5-16. ISSN 0965-4313

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