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Buses are critical urban infrastructure. But the number of journeys made on them has declined in almost all cities apart from London for the past few decades. This report cites deregulation...
This report investigates the amount of space people have in different cities and how this has changed since 2011. It sets out what should be done to give people more space and make housing more affordable as the economy grows.
While unemployment rates are at a record low, many people remain excluded from the labour market. New research tries to count them across UK cities.
Andrew Carter on why the geographical spread of R&D investment matters when trying to level-up the economy.
Space standards force people to consume more space than they can afford and reduce the supply of new homes.
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Since the UK general election, there has been much discussion about using R&D as an instrument to level-up the country. But policymakers are grappling with exactly how to support more...
Sao Paulo University’s Professor Raquel Rolnik joins Andrew Carter to discuss her book, Urban Warfare: Housing Under the Empire of Finance. Using examples from across the globe, she...
As a decade of austerity comes to end, this year’s edition of Cities Outlook looks at how city spending has changed.
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