The Plan for Change will switch the Government’s economic milestone to disposable income, away from ‘sustained growth’. This does not change the underlying economic mission.
This report looks at the role public housebuilding has played in England over the last 80 years to inform the role it should play in the future. It is the second in Centre for Cities’ three-part Restarting Housebuilding series.
This report investigates whether the current planning system has seen private housebuilding reach rates high enough to meet the new national target for 1.5 million homes in England by the end of the Parliament.
This blog extends some of the analysis in the Spending Time report to include non-urban local authorities. It shows that understanding the rural visitor economy can help contextualise many urban tourism trends in the UK.
The Government will soon publish a white paper on devolution in England. This is likely to be the latest staging post in England's gradual move to having more power held at the level that an...
The UK doesn’t just have a national housing crisis, but there is a housing crisis in our most unaffordable cities. How can homes be built where they are needed?
As well as providing a deep dive into the latest economic data on the UK’s cities and largest towns, Cities Outlook 2024 looks back at how cities have fared since 2010.
With 2024 a likely election year, this year's Cities Outlook looks back at how cities have fared since 2010 and where the economy would be today had pre-2010 trends continued.
The UK economy has flatlined, and all parts of the country are suffering. This won’t change unless productivity growth improves.
In a two-part series of Centre for Cities’ City Minutes podcast, Chief Executive Andrew Carter and Director of Policy and Research Paul Swinney explore the findings and implications of the Centre’s annual snapshot of urban economies across the UK.
No part of the UK has escaped the impact of the flatlining of the UK economy since 2010, according to new analysis by Centre for Cities in Cities Outlook 2024.
Join Centre for Cities for an in-depth look at the findings from Cities Outlook 2025.
A parliamentary reception to mark the launch of Centre for Cities' new Restarting housebuilding report series.
Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Rob Johnson, Analyst, and Oscar Selby, Researcher, to discuss Centre for Cities’ new report, ‘Spending time: the role of the visitor economy in UK...
In this episode of City Talks Andrew Carter, Chief Executive of Centre for Cities, is joined by Mark Muro, senior fellow at Brookings Metro, to discuss place based industrial strategy. They...
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