2005
Mind the Enterprise Gap: Is enterprise policy working to help businesses in deprived areas?
Date: 01/12/2005
Author: Tracy Kornblatt and Liz Troni
The Centre for Cities' City Markets Project has surveyed 348 businesses in deprived areas in Derby, Doncaster and Sunderland. This paper presents the survey.
Faulty Towers? City centre housing markets in the UK
Date: 01/11/2005
Author: Chris Urwin
This report provides a detailed understanding of the demand for city centre living in Britain.
Bigger, Better, Smarter: Why the extended Lyons Inquiry is good for our cities
Date: 01/10/2005
Author: Adam Marshall
This paper argues that the expanded Lyons Inquiry is an opportunity that should not be wasted. Instead of political manoeuvring, its time to develop concrete reforms beginning with the devolution of real power and resources to Britains cities.
The Wrong Stuff: Creative class theory, diversity and city performance
Date: 01/09/2005
Author: Max Nathan
This paper concludes that the creative class model is a poor predictor of UK city performance. There is other, stronger evidence that diversity and creativity are linked to economic growth in cities, not least through rebranding and boosting tourism. Decisionmakers should focus on the basics: creativity is the icing, not the cake.
City centre regeneration projects: dealing with the public-private divide
Date: 28/06/2005
Author: Adam Marshall
To property developers, local authorities are often a big headache – they create barriers to major urban regeneration projects, it’s argued, because they lack the people, resources and vision to ‘make it happen’. In the eyes of public sector stakeholders, private interests are driven only by visions of profit, rather than strategic local economic development and community needs. This gap between public and private sector views has a huge impact on Britain's cities, so what needs to change?
British Cities - Learning from International Experience
Date: 29/04/2005
Author: Adam Marshall
In recent years, central government has placed a great deal of emphasis on learning from American regeneration practices. Why has Whitehall concentrated so much attention on places like Chicago and Baltimore, while paying less attention to the European evidence base? This article argues that UK cities need to take best practice lessons from American and European experience in order to promote regeneration and economic growth.
