Topical insights from JLL experts across the globe on key issues that have an impact on city real estate markets such as globalisation, urbanisation, density, demographics, sustainability and governance.
Authors: Tim Moonen and Jonathan Couturier, The Business of Cities Singapore has a well-earned reputation for long-term, pragmatic leadership against daunting odds, as the city-state has evolved with remarkable speed from a small impoverished nation in 1965 into today’s iconic global metropolis. Under the stewardship of the Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, the ruling People’s […]
Authors: Greg Clark, Chair of JLL Cities Research Center, with Emily Moir Cities and businesses have always been closely linked. A great number of cities owe their very origins to business, having developed from trading posts where merchants and artisans gathered to engage in commerce. At various points in history, the distinctions between cities and businesses […]
Authors: Greg Clark, Chair of JLL Cities Research Center, with Emily Moir In this series of blogs and the essay, The Future of Cities: what is the global agenda?, we explore the future of cities. Whilst previous posts have examined how national governments are thinking about their cities’ futures, we now turn our attention to […]
Authors: Greg Clark, Chair of JLL Cities Research Center, with Emily Moir In this series of blogs and the essay, The Future of Cities: what is the global agenda?, we explore the future of cities. This week we review the Brazilian government’s approach to planning their cities’ futures, and how this approach has evolved in […]
Authors: Greg Clark, Chair of JLL Cities Research Center, with Emily Moir In this series of blogs and the essay, The future of cities: what is the global agenda?, we explore the future of cities. In this post, we look at new policies and plans being made by Polish and Norwegian governments in relation to […]
Authors: Greg Clark, Chair of JLL Cities Research Center, with Emily Moir In this series of blogs and the essay, The future of cities: what is the global agenda?, we explore the future of cities. Here we examine the challenges that the future holds for small cities – which are, and will continue to be, […]
Author: Hamish Crouch “Having always lived in the shadow of its gregarious eastern-seaboard cousins, the ‘City of Churches’ has been quietly loosening its pious shackles and embracing its liberal foundations” – Lonely Planet. In the frenzy that is ‘mad March’, it would be remiss of me not to recognise just how far Adelaide has come […]
Authors: Greg Clark of the JLL Cities Research Center with Emily Moir In the last post, we discussed what the urban world might look like by 2050. This blog probes that theme further, and considers the future of the world’s largest cities, in conjunction with our Business of Cities essay. The mega-city is the glamorous face […]
Authors: Greg Clark of the JLL Cities Research Centre with Emily Moir This is the first in a new series of blogs on the future of cities based on the Business of Cities essay, produced in conjunction with the UK Government Office for Science. Over the last five years, two ‘future’ urban agendas have been […]
Authors: Greg Clark and Emily Moir The last blog in this series, looked at the suitability of commercial strategies for city governance, as identified in the Business of Cities essay. In this post we explore the future relationship between businesses and cities. In the new global era, cities and businesses have become strongly inter-connected and inter-dependent. They […]
