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.
Changes in the labour market and the gig economy are playing out differently across the country.
A five point plan to improve cities' prosperity and re-balance the national economy.
The next Government should prioritise urban transport improvements and give cities the power to deliver them.
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A workshop looking at the prospects for Swindon's urban centre
Launch of the UK City Leaders' Survey 2019
Simon Jeffrey, policy officer at the Centre for Cities joins Chief Executive Andrew Carter to set out how metro mayors should begin the process of bringing local bus networks under their control via franchising in order to support economic growth, reduce congestion and improve air quality in cities.
Andrew Carter is joined by a panel to discuss how evidence-based policymaking can help disadvantaged places with low levels of economic activity and high proportions of vulnerable people in the wake of cuts to local authority budgets.
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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