June 2024
Cities drive global prosperity, but the way they do so is changing
The economic power of megacities is in slow decline, with smaller cities picking up the pace of consumer growth. By Matthew Cooper and Marco Fengler.
VP of Data · World Data Lab
Matt is Vice-President of Data at World Data Lab, where he brings over 15 years of experience in using demographic and geospatial data. Prior to joining WDL, Matt received a PhD in Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland and conducted a post-doc at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, funded by the Harvard Data Science Institute.
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June 2024
The economic power of megacities is in slow decline, with smaller cities picking up the pace of consumer growth. By Matthew Cooper and Marco Fengler.
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