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: Greg Clark and Emily Moir The last blog in this series explored how companies are restructuring to better serve city markets, as identified in the Business of Cities essay. In this post we look at how six major trends in the changing relationship between cities and businesses lead to three important new roles for […]
Authors: Greg Clark and Emily Moir Earlier posts in this blog series have seen how global firms are realigning their products and services so as to better cater to cities, as identified in the Business of Cities essay. Some companies have even developed city-focused brands as a means of unifying and marketing these offerings. A significant number […]
Authors: Greg Clark and Emily Moir In the last blog of this series, we explored the fundamental role that cities play in business innovation, as identified in the Business of Cities essay. In this post we consider how businesses are rebranding for city markets and consumers. The growing importance of the city as a marketplace […]
Authors: Greg Clark and Emily Moir In the last blog of this series, we explored the growing trend of tradable urban services and solutions, as identified in the Business of Cities essay. In this post we consider the fundamental role that cities play in business innovation. Cities are centres of innovation. They are environments which encourage […]
Authors: Greg Clark and Emily Moir In the last blog of this series, we explored the first trend identified in the Business of Cities essay – cities as emerging markets for business. In this blog, we consider the growth of tradable urban services and solutions. I’m about to embark on an imaginary round-the-world trip, which has just […]
Authors: Greg Clark and Emily Moir The UK Government Office for Science has published an essay from the Business of Cities: Future of cities: the business of cities This blog marks the start of a series of posts, which will introduce the key messages from the essay and assert a new agenda for cites and […]
Author: Greg Clark Urbanisation and globalisation are changing the way that businesses look at cities. Cities are becoming more interesting places for businesses to locate in, sell to, and engage with, and businesses are re-organising their relationship with cities in an effort to generate advantage and move with the times. Siemens, along with other engineering […]
Author: Greg Clark At first glance you might think that IBM, the US multinational technology and consulting business headquartered in Armonk, a sleepy suburb of New York state, would have little interest in cities and their future prospects. But IBM is right at the forefront of activity in the Smart Cities space, and together with […]
Author: Greg Clark Cisco, the US technology giant, is one of a handful of multinational companies which has been at the forefront of changing the relationship between business and cities. Greg Clark explores how and why the company is a pioneering example of a new type of urban business. The ‘Smart City’ has become a […]
