Head of Urban and Territorial Analysis, Joint Research Centre, European Commission and Visiting Professor at LSE. Tweets are my personal opinion.

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💻🏙️Join our webinar on ‘Applying the Degree of Urbanization’, a virtual side event of the #UN54SC 🗓️ 31 January 2023 at 15:00 CET Register here 👉europa.eu/!cN8TgY ℹ️ Discover the methodology for delineation of cities, urban & rural areas #DEGURBA
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Lewis Dijkstra retweeted
Join us for the #UN54SC side event on Applying the Degree of Urbanization - progress & next steps on Jan 31st, 9am EST! Learn about national experiences since the @UN StatComm endorsed this new methodology in 2020. Register here: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner… #Urbanization #DEGURBA
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The debate about the economic impact of decentralization has been misguided. It should not be about whether more #decentralization is needed, but about whether the resources subnational #governments have suffice for the responsibilities they face. doi.org/10.1177/003232172211…
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#CohesionPolicy has been at forefront of EU response supporting healthcare and providing substantial liquidity to businesses. It proved to be agile & effective in adapting rapidly to the crisis. Discover the first #EURegioDataStories to learn more 👉europa.eu/!WVVK6d 5/5
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The regional impact of #Covid19 shows that 🇪🇺territories were hit unevenly. The #CohesionReport (europa.eu/!Rv9XXt) provides data to shape present and future policies. A thread on Covid excess mortality 1/5
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Extremely honoured to have been awarded the 2020 Best Paper prize in @RegionalStudies. Very grateful to the editors, for their trust in my research, and to my co-authors @DijkstraLewis & Hugo Poelman, without whom this award would have been impossible. doi.org/10.1080/00343404.201…
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Best Paper @RegionalStudies Lewis Dijkstra, Hugo Poelman & Andrés Rodríguez-Pose (2020) The geography of EU discontent. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1… @DijkstraLewis @rodriguez_pose
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We will no longer compare 🏙️#cities as 🍎apples & 🍊oranges… but as different kinds of apples! Our new harmonised city definitions will help to build smart, sustainable and inclusive cities. Learn more on our new web tool ➡️ worldcitiestool.org | #WUF10
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Lewis Dijkstra retweeted
A total of 76% of the world’s population now lives in urban areas, according to our Atlas of the Human Planet, presented today at #WUF10 – explore data & the urbanisation pace in nearly 240 countries & territories, spanning 4 decades europa.eu/!DC79wR
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Lewis Dijkstra retweeted
On Friday, 11.00 we have a special session on the #geography of #discontent (S43-S2) with @mariaaabreu, @DijkstraLewis and @rodriguez_pose! Interested? Perhaps you (also) want to contribute to our #RSPP special issue on ‘regional voting patterns’! regionalscience.org/index.ph…
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Increasingly our social and economic future depends on #cities, but, in order to truly understand and improve cities, we need to have far better and more homogeneous definitions and measurements of what cities are. @DijkstraLewis at #ersa2019Lyon
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A thwarted no-deal by UK Parl. + anticipated elections perfect scenario for @BorisJohnson: he gets another chance to campaign as fact-free clown rather than irresponsible kamikaze. My column today in @nrc (in Dutch). Tnx @fotoole. nrc.nl/nieuws/2019/07/25/bor…
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We had another message for the #TourdeFrance in Brussels yesterday, one for which we needed the cameraman in the heli. Alas, this one didn't make it past the censor 😅. #GrandDepartBxl #tourdeforce
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Great graphics. US Democrats have gone from being a center-right to a center-left party; the GOP from a right-wing party to an extreme right-wing party, closer to Germany's neo-Nazis than to the global center. nytimes.com/interactive/2019…
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Thanks to the Utrecht team and @morrisonXandrea for the titanic job of leading the bid, and to all other teams involved. @LSEGeography team @crescenzi_r @ndrlee @rodriguez_pose look forward to collaborating in this exciting project!
Delighted to announce @LSEGeography has been awarded €606,345 funding from the Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks Scheme for POLISS (Policies for Smart Specialisation) - congratulations to @IammarinoSimona on this major achievement! @LSEnews @LSE_RI
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The rural-urban divide is not the only factor behind the anti-European #vote. Economic stagnation, especially in areas suffering from long industrial decline, is the main driver of #euroscepticism #placesthatdontmatter in @lemondefr doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsx024 lemonde.fr/international/art…
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Le clivage villes-campagnes n’est pas le seul critère du #vote anti-européen. Ce sont les territoires en déclin, notamment ceux qui ont subi un long déclin industriel qui se révèlent les plus #eurosceptiques @lemondefr doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsx024 lemonde.fr/international/art…
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This is the full article in Le Monde based on the geography of EU discontent by @DijkstraLewis, Hugo Poelman and myself. Link below ec.europa.eu/regional_policy… doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsx024 lemonde.fr/international/art…
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Lewis Dijkstra retweeted
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@DijkstraLewis at #RSASdC : yes we need to measure cross border flows, but those flows that do not exist because of the border. The challenge is to measure the potential interactions in #EUBorderRegions #euinmyregion @RegioInterreg
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A great start to #rsasdc Thursday with our great policy panel. Massive thanks to @DijkstraLewis @FSielker @LaurentFrideres @NachoSAmor for such an enjoyable and enlightening session.
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.@DijkstraLewis examines the geographies of eu discontent to a packed room #RSASdC
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