Sunderland
Hidden potential: Supporting growth in Sunderland & other mid-sized cities
Date: 14/10/2011
Author: Paul Swinney
Despite strong city wide growth, some mid-tier cities including Sunderland suffer from weak urban cores - a weakness that appears to be having a subsequent impact on the industrial and occupational composition of their economies.
Sunderland: The Challenges of the Future
Date: 28/01/2009
Author: Malcolm Cooper
This report was prepared for Sunderland, as part of the Centre for Cities research programme ‘Unlocking City Potential and Sustaining City Growth'.
City Markets: Business location in deprived areas
Date: 19/06/2006
Author: Liz Troni and Tracy Kornblatt
City Markets concludes that Business-led regeneration should focus on business-deprived areas but that the Government should subsidise business activity only where specific market failures exist, in proportion to those market failures and in line with local labour market and other conditions.
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.
