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50-456: The goal of the IEA is to promote personal contacts and mutual understanding among economists in different parts of the world through the organization of scientific meetings, through common research programs and by means of publications of an international character on problems of current importance. The IEA has two main bodies which rule the association: the council and the executive committee. The IEA

100-523: A " Wellbeing Walk" between Euston and St Pancras stations. The route avoids Euston Road , and the group claims that their route, compared to the Euston Road route, reduces pedestrians' exposure to air pollution by 50%. King's Cross St Pancras tube station is on several London Underground lines: The Piccadilly line links King's Cross directly to Heathrow Airport [REDACTED] and the West End , whilst

150-763: A controlling interest in Springer Nature). As part of Macmillan, it was headquartered at the Macmillan campus in Kings Cross, London with other Macmillan companies including Pan Macmillan , Nature Publishing Group and Macmillan Education , having moved from Basingstoke in 2014. Palgrave is named after the Palgrave family. Classical historian Sir Francis Palgrave , who founded the Public Record Office , and his four sons were all closely tied with Macmillan Publishers in

200-427: A joint partnership: Kings Cross Central Limited Partnership. Outline planning permission, prepared by Allies and Morrison and Porphyrios Associates , was granted for the whole site in 2006. Detailed planning applications for each part of the site are being made on a rolling programme basis. The area remains a major focus of redevelopment in the second decade of the 21st century. In 2017, Google, which already occupy

250-565: A large new building between St. Pancras and King's Cross stations, announced plans for a further £1 billion building stretching along the west side of King's Cross station towards the Regents canal. The area has also been for many years home to a number of trades union head offices (including the NUJ, RMT, UNISON, NUT, Community and UCU). The area has increasingly become home to cultural establishments. The London Canal Museum opened in 1992, and in 1997

300-618: A new home for the British Library opened next to St Pancras station. There was a small theatre, the Courtyard, that closed in late 2006 as a result of the gentrification of the area caused by a number of regeneration projects there, in this case, Regent's Quarter, across the boundary in Islington. The Gagosian Gallery moved their main London premises to the area in 2004. The London Sinfonietta and

350-550: A pricing structure which "will limit readership to the privileged few", as opposed to options for " open access without tears" offered by DOAJ , Unpaywall and DOAB . Launched in 2012, Palgrave Pivot is an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan, aimed at publishing shorter, "rigorously peer-reviewed" monographs, focused on new important research across the Humanities and Social Sciences. Notable authors include (alphabetically by last name): Kings Cross, London King's Cross

400-436: A sign for the fictional " Platform 9 + 3 ⁄ 4 " described in the books, and embedded part of a luggage trolley halfway into the wall. Film adaptations have used platforms 4 and 5, with the nearby St Pancras station and hotel acting as exteriors. King's Cross and its surrounding streets were also the setting for the 1955 Ealing comedy , The Ladykillers , two British drama films starring Max Bygraves — A Cry from

450-513: A song featured on their 1987 album Actually named " King's Cross ": the melancholy track discusses the hopelessness of the AIDS epidemic during that time and uses the King's Cross area as the "backdrop" of the story, trading on the area's associations with drug use and prostitution. Tracey Thorn covered the song in 2007. Songwriter David Gedge also wrote a song called "King's Cross" while recording under

500-665: A variety of other academic publishers, including Acumen Publishing, Atlas & Co, Bedford-St. Martin's , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press , Continuum International Publishing Group , David Fulton , Gerald Duckworth and Company , W. H. Freeman , Haymarket Books , Henry Holt , I.B. Tauris, Learning Matters, Lynne Reiner Publishers, Macquarie Library, New Internationalist , The New Press , Ocean Press, Perseus Books Group , Pluto Press , Routledge / Taylor and Francis , Saqi Books, Scion Publishers, Seven Stories Press, Sinauer Associates , Tilde University Press, University Science Books, and Zed Books . Palgrave has been criticised for

550-740: Is Eurostar 's London terminus. International destinations include Amsterdam , Brussels , and Paris . The station is also the terminus of Southeastern High Speed services from Kent and Stratford International (where London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is situated). Other long-distance National Rail services are operated by East Midlands Railway to cities such as Leicester and Sheffield . Thameslink operates regional services across London, South East England , and East Anglia . Trains serve key UK destinations including Bedford , Brighton , Cambridge , and Luton . They also serve several major London destinations, including Farringdon , Finsbury Park , and London Bridge . These routes provide

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600-516: Is a district in the London Boroughs of Camden and Islington , on either side of Euston Road in north London , England, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Charing Cross , bordered by Barnsbury to the north, Clerkenwell to the southeast, Angel to the east, Holborn and Bloomsbury to the south, Euston to the west and Camden Town to the northwest. It is served by two major rail termini, St Pancras and King's Cross . King's Cross station

650-412: Is governed by a council, composed of representatives of all member associations as well as a limited number of co-opted members. The council meets triennially, when it reviews the general policy of the association and elects the president and other officers and members of the executive committee for a three-year term of office. The executive committee, which numbers 15 members (and 3 advisors), decides, in

700-498: Is the terminus of one of the major rail routes between London and the North. The area, which was historically the south-eastern part of the parish and borough of St Pancras , has undergone significant regeneration since the mid-1990s. The introduction of the Eurostar rail service at St Pancras International and the rebuilding of King's Cross station helped stimulate the redevelopment of

750-545: The King's Cross Central development, was a rail freight terminal. The Yard was designed by Lewis Cubitt in 1852. The nearby Granary Square is named after the Granary building . Trains carried Lincolnshire wheat to King's Cross, where the wheat would then be stored in the Granary building to be used by London's bakers. St Pancras International station is in the district. St Pancras

800-863: The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment are based in King's Place , on Battlebridge Basin next to the Regent's Canal . King's Place is also the home of The Guardian and The Observer newspapers, and of the UK Drug Policy Commission. In September 2011 the University of the Arts London moved to the Granary Complex. A whole series of new public squares and gardens have opened, among them Granary Square with its spectacular fountains, Lewis Cubitt Park and Square and

850-418: The "Lighthouse Building", the structure was popularly thought to be an advertisement for Netten's Oyster Bar on the ground floor, but this seems not to be true. It is a grade II listed building. King's Cross station now stands by the junction where the monument stood and took its name. The station, designed by architect Lewis Cubitt and opened in 1852, succeeded a temporary earlier station, erected north of

900-462: The 1990s warehouse rave scene on the site of Goods Yard behind King's Cross stations, now part of the redevelopment area known as the Coal Drops adjacent to Granary Square. In the 1990s, the government established the King's Cross Partnership to fund regeneration projects, and the commencement of work on High Speed 1 in 2000 provided a major impetus for other projects. In 2001, Argent was selected as

950-459: The 19th century: Palgrave Macmillan publishes The Statesman's Yearbook , an annual reference work which gives a political, economic and social overview of every country of the world. In 2008, Palgrave Macmillan published The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics , 2nd edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume . In 2009, Palgrave Macmillan made over 4,500 scholarly ebooks available to libraries. Palgrave Macmillan represents

1000-529: The British Library) and Judd Street. Northbound, Cycleway 6 passes east of Camden Town en route to Kentish Town. Southbound, the route links King's Cross to Farringdon, the City, and Elephant & Castle. The Regent's Canal Towpath runs westbound from King's Cross to Camden Lock , Regent's Park , and Maida Vale . The Islington Tunnel means that eastbound cyclists must bypass the canal through Angel , but

1050-675: The Circle, Hammersmith & City, Metropolitan, and Northern lines link the area to the City . Euston tube station is nearby, which is served by both branches of the Northern line, and the Victoria line. Both stations are in London's Zone 1 . With three railway stations in the immediate area, and two tube stations, much of the area is used as a transport interchange. London Buses 17 , 30 , 46 , 63 , 73 , 91 , 205 , 214 , 259 , 390 and 476 serve

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1100-650: The Community Creation Trust took over the disused coach repair depot and built it into the largest Ecology Centre in Europe with ecohousing for homeless youngsters, The Last Platform Cafe, London Ecology Centre (after its demise in Covent Garden), offices and workshops, gardens and ponds. It was destroyed to make a car park for the Channel Tunnel Regeneration. Bagley's Warehouse was a nightclub venue in

1150-610: The Congresses was followed by some volumes of proceedings published by Palgrave Macmillan . Palgrave Macmillan Palgrave Macmillan is a British academic and trade publishing company headquartered in the London Borough of Camden . Its programme includes textbooks, journals, monographs, professional and reference works in print and online. It maintains offices in London, New York , Shanghai , Melbourne , Sydney , Hong Kong , Delhi and Johannesburg . Palgrave Macmillan

1200-628: The East Midlands, Yorkshire , North East England and Scotland , including Leeds , Newcastle upon Tyne , and Edinburgh . In fiction, the station is the London terminus of the Hogwarts Express , which carries Harry Potter to Hogwarts. In the Harry Potter films, however, the exterior shots of the station are those of neighbouring St Pancras station. Some interior shots were filmed at York railway station . The Goods Yard complex, part of

1250-409: The IEA officers and executive committee, undertakes the scientific planning of the program and is responsible for the subsequent publication. Decisions concerning the work of the association are taken by the president, in consultation with the other officers, the executive committee frequently being consulted. The IEA is in effect a federation of national academic associations or committees representing

1300-644: The King's Cross area with direct links to Gatwick and Luton Airports [REDACTED] . Euston station sits around one-half mile (800 m) west of King's Cross. National Rail trains from Euston serve the West Midlands , North Wales , North West England , and Scotland . Destinations include Birmingham , Liverpool , Manchester , Holyhead , and Glasgow . London Overground ( [REDACTED] ) services run between Euston and Watford Junction , via Willesden Junction , Wembley Central , and Harrow & Wealdstone . A business partnership group has designed

1350-512: The London Borough of Islington. The eastern boundary of the parish and borough of St Pancras has become the boundary of the larger modern borough and is locally formed, in part, by the course of the River Fleet . The southern boundary of the parish and borough ran along Guilford Street and in places slightly further south where, on the north side of Long Yard and along Roger Street it followed

1400-496: The RELAY King's Cross Arts programme. The Roque map of 1746 shows the area as entirely undeveloped, however the opening of the new Euston Road (originally New Road ) in 1756, opened the area up for development. The current name has its origin in a monument to King George IV which stood from 1830 to 1845 at "the king's crossroads" where New Road (later Euston Road ), Gray's Inn Road , and Pentonville Road met. The monument

1450-630: The Streets (1958) and Spare the Rod (1961)—as well as Mike Leigh 's High Hopes (1988). Anthony Minghella 's 2006 film Breaking and Entering is also set in King's Cross. Iin 1972 it was the setting for Kings Cross Lunch Hour , one of four plays set in different parts of London, written by John Mortimer for the BBC drama series Thirty-Minute Theatre . "Vale Royal", an epic poem in 700 triads by Aidan Andrew Dun probes into this zone of London; "Vale Royal"

1500-641: The area, utilising the large amount of land available following the decline of the railway goods yard to the north of the station and the many other vacant premises in the area. Relatively cheap rents and a central London location made the area attractive to artists and designers and both Antony Gormley and Thomas Heatherwick established studios in the area. In the late 1980s, a group of musicians, mechanics, and squatters from Hammersmith called Mutoid Waste Company moved into Battlebridge Road warehouse. They built huge industrial sculptures out of scrap metal and held raves. In 1989 they were evicted by police. In 1992,

1550-517: The canal in time for the Great Exhibition of 1851. St Pancras railway station , built by the Midland Railway , lies immediately to the west. They both had extensive land ("the railway lands") to house their associated facilities for handling general goods and specialist commodities such as fish, coal, potatoes and grain. The passenger stations on Euston Road far outweighed in public attention

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1600-535: The course of a now culverted tributary of the Fleet, a tributary which was historically dammed to form Lamb's Conduit . The London Borough of Camden has an electoral ward called King's Cross . In the Harry Potter books, King's Cross station is where the protagonist boards the train for Hogwarts . However, author JK Rowling later admitted she had confused it with nearby Euston station . The railway station has put up

1650-507: The development partner. The London terminus of the Eurostar international rail services to Paris and Brussels moved to St Pancras station in November 2007. Following the opening of the High Speed 1 to the station, redevelopment of the land between the two major stations and the old King's Cross railway lands to the rear commenced. In 2008, Argent, London & Continental Railways and DHL formed

1700-491: The district during the daytime. National Express coach A8 connects the district to Stansted Airport , whilst Green Line coach 748 links the area to Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire . Several cycle routes pass through King's Cross. Cycling infrastructure is maintained by the London Borough of Camden and Transport for London (TfL). Cycleway 6 runs north–south along Midland Road (between St Pancras station and

1750-464: The economically more important goods traffic to the north. King's Cross and St Pancras stations, and indeed all London railway stations, made an important contribution to the capital's economy. After World War II the area declined from being a poor but busy industrial and distribution services district to a partially abandoned post-industrial district. By the 1980s it was notorious for prostitution and drug abuse. This reputation impeded attempts to revive

1800-405: The economists of each country. In 2020 it had 30 member countries and 8 association countries. In the implementation of each project, invitations are sent to those individuals or research institutes—regardless of nationality—that appear in the circumstances to be best qualified to make a serious contribution to the study of the subject chosen. Regional conferences have been held in various parts of

1850-636: The end of World War II . The area had been settled in Roman times, and a camp here known as The Brill was erroneously attributed to Julius Caesar , who never visited Londinium. There is still a small area named "Battle Bridge Place" between King's Cross and St Pancras stations, and "Brill Place", a road leading towards Euston from St Pancras station. An art installation named the Identified Flying Object (IFO) stands in Battle Bridge Place, part of

1900-899: The help of subsidies from UNESCO, the World Bank and the European Commission and international organizations to facilitate the participation of economists from these countries in the work of the IEA. In essence, the activities of the IEA during the 65 years of its existence may be summed up as follows: 1. The organization of 115 specialists' conferences of a round-table type and the publication of 154 volumes of proceedings. 2. The organization of fifteen open international congresses: Rome 1956, Vienna 1962, Montreal 1968, Budapest 1974, Tokyo 1977, Mexico 1980, Madrid 1983, New Delhi 1986, Athens 1989, Moscow 1992, Tunis 1995, Buenos Aires 1999, Lisbon, 2002, Marrakech, 2005, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2008, Beijing, China, July 2011 and Dead Sea, Jordan, 2014. Each of

1950-527: The light of the general policies approved by the council, the subjects of specialists' conferences and other projects and selects the chairman of the Program Committee who will be entrusted with the scientific preparation of each project. The general practice is to invoke the aid of an economist of outstanding distinction in the subject who, with other members of the Committee chosen by him in consultation with

2000-412: The long derelict railway lands to the north of the termini. The area, historically the south-eastern part of the ancient parish and subsequent Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras , was previously known as Battle Bridge or Battlebridge after an ancient crossing of the River Fleet . The original name of the bridge was Broad Ford Bridge. The original parish church, St Pancras Old Church , located behind

2050-584: The name Cinerama . King's Cross station is a railway terminus and London Underground interchange, and a focal point in the district. Commuter services from King's Cross are operated by Thameslink and Great Northern , serving destinations in north London, such as Finsbury Park , Harringay , and Enfield Town . Destinations further afield include Welwyn Garden City , Stevenage , Peterborough , Cambridge , and King's Lynn . Long-distance departures from King's Cross are operated by Grand Central , Lumo , Hull Trains , and LNER . Trains serve destinations in

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2100-455: The new Gasholder Park. The station's redevelopment led to the demolition of several buildings, including the Gasworks. King's Cross forms the south-east part of the ancient parish and subsequent borough of St Pancras , which is now the major part of the London Borough of Camden . The importance of King's Cross station means that use of the place name term spills over into neighbouring parts of

2150-538: The place of action between the Romans and Boudica ( Annals 14.31), but without specifying where it was; Thornbury addresses the pros and cons of the identification. Lewis Spence 's 1937 book Boadicea – warrior queen of the Britons includes a map showing the supposed positions of the opposing armies. The suggestion that Boudica is buried beneath platform 9 or 10 at King's Cross station seems to have arisen as urban folklore since

2200-627: The sales, marketing and distribution interests of W. H. Freeman , Worth Publishers, Sinauer Associates , and University Science Books outside the US, Canada, Australia and the Far East. Palgrave Macmillan previously distributed I.B. Tauris in the U.S. and Canada; and Manchester University Press , Pluto Press , and Zed Books in the U.S. In Australia Palgrave represents both the Macmillan Group, including Palgrave Macmillan and Nature Publishing Group , and

2250-640: The stations, was built on a knoll on the west bank of the Fleet, and is believed to be one of the oldest Christian sites in Britain. The corruption "Battle Bridge" led to a tradition that this was the site of a major battle in AD 60 or 61 between the Romans and the Iceni tribe led by Boudica (also known as Boadicea). The tradition claims support from the writing of Publius Cornelius Tacitus , an ancient Roman historian, who described

2300-468: The world to study problems particular to the region. East-West conferences have provided an opportunity for economists from Eastern and Western Europe to meet and discuss problems of common interest. Particular attention has been paid also to problems of concern to developing countries by devoting whole conferences or sections of conferences and congresses to these problems. In the case of the developing countries considerable efforts have been made, often with

2350-551: Was Stephen Geary , who exhibited a model of "the Kings Cross" at the Royal Academy in 1830. The upper storey was used as a camera obscura while the base housed first a police station, and later a public house. The unpopular building was demolished in 1845, though the area kept the name of King's Cross. A structure in the form of a lighthouse was built on top of a building almost on the site about 30 years later. Known locally as

2400-615: Was created in 2000 when St. Martin's Press in the US united with Macmillan Publishers in the UK to combine their worldwide academic publishing operations. The company was known simply as Palgrave until 2002, but has since been known as Palgrave Macmillan. It is a subsidiary of Springer Nature . Until 2015, it was part of the Macmillan Group and therefore wholly owned by the German publishing company Holtzbrinck Publishing Group (which still owns

2450-584: Was launched at the Albert Hall in 1995. A triad of Dun's, excerpted from another poem, "The Brill", has been installed at the western end of Granary Square in a small grove of trees beside the new Central Saint Martins. It reads: "Kings Cross, dense with angels and histories, there are cities beneath your pavements, cities behind your skies. Let me see!" The Irish rock group the Pogues was founded in King's Cross. The British pop music duo Pet Shop Boys recorded

2500-414: Was sixty feet (18 m) high and topped by an eleven-foot-high (3.4 m) statue of the king; it was described by Walter Thornbury as "a ridiculous octagonal structure crowned by an absurd statue". The statue itself, which cost no more than £25, was constructed of bricks and mortar, and finished in a manner that gave it the appearance of stone "at least to the eyes of common spectators". The architect

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