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This Sunday marks 10 years since George Osborne made his first speech on the Northern Powerhouse, a plan to get northern cities firing again. This issue (rebadged as levelling up by Boris Johnson)...
Leading G7 economies are urban but the relative underperformance of the UK’s ‘secondary’ cities by comparison has created a yawning prosperity gap. British politicians love beating the...
Last week, Centre for Cities’ whistle stop city visit tour arrived in Blackburn. There we saw the beginnings of the £250 million city centre regeneration taking shape. This told us about the...
Universities are often invoked as vital drivers of local economic growth, innovative technologies and businesses. However, as James Evans discusses their influence on local innovation may be overestimated in comparison to the role they play in organising and helping these businesses develop.
Centre for Cities was in Southampton last week and a theme that came up in conversations with a number of different stakeholders, as it has in other recent city visits, was devolution. Southampton...
The new East Midlands devolution deal marks new opportunities for Nottingham but the challenges remain around local authority finance.
While parliamentary constituencies are frequently contrasted to either one another or the national average, this comparison tells us less in reality than the figures suggest. We shouldn’t expect...
Five weeks to go until the general election, Centre for Cities launches a data tool that puts constituencies in context to better understand their economic performance
Metro Mayors offered more on transport policy than any other area in their manifestos, so what should we be looking out for?
This week, Centre for Cities spent some time in Burnley to get a better understanding of how the economy is faring and what is being done locally to promote growth. Three things – the structure...