It’s disingenuous to call it ‘new’ data … the Brookings Institute has produced urban/city GDP estimates for years - I know because we have been using them in our pitch materials to demonstrate the differences in economic activity between cities across regions for a while now … maybe they’ve augmented it with some nifty AI but ultimately it says the same thing…

BTW our point has been consistently the same … the US derives almost half its economic activity from 30 cities … Europe needs 60 cities to reach the same share of GDP … this tells us a lot about how the 2 regions are different and what is required in order to achieve a diversified economic allocation …