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Jeremy Williams is Research Associate, International Public Policy Observatory, UCL. He is an urban researcher, ethnographer, and policy practitioner. He leads the Cities workstream for the International Public Policy Observatory and is a Doctoral Candidate at Freie Universität Berlin. He writes about cities, public space, political possibility, and city politics and policymaking.
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