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.
Centre for Cities' latest piece of work on housing delves deep into the history of the UK's housing crisis and finds that the UK has a backlog of 4.3 million missing homes.
Housing is unaffordable because we don’t build enough homes – and the only solution is planning reform.
The partial end of ‘hope value’ is an important step forward, but more is needed to improve housing affordability in the UK.
Only by building both up and out of cities will we start to close the gap on England’s 4.3 million missing homes.
Compared to other European countries, Britain has a backlog of millions of homes that are missing from the housing market. Building these homes is key to solving the nation's housing crisis.
London's productivity growth has stalled since 2007, explaining a large part of the UK's 'productivity puzzle' and leaving it trailing behind its global peers.
The UK has lost its cutting edge, with implications for growth across the country.
Research from Cities Outlook 2024 has revealed people are on average £10,200 poorer since 2010. Director of Policy and Research Paul Swinney writes in the Big Issue about why a return to economic growth must be a priority, and the polices the next Government should pursue to help get there.
Three years on from lockdown, central London workers spend on average 2.3 days in the office per week. Will a London running on 59 per cent of January 2020’s office attendance levels be enough to avoid a slump in the UK's long term productivity and prosperity?
Urban economies essential for driving growth in the Midlands Engine are underperforming, and low productivity is to blame.
From devolution deals to fairer council tax, your fiscal devolution questions, answered.
How can we accelerate the decarbonisation the UK's housing stock?
On 2nd May 2024, voting will take place for 10 metro mayors across England – London, Greater Manchester, Liverpool City Region, South Yorkshire, Tees Valley, West Midlands, West Yorkshire, North East, East Midlands and York and North Yorkshire.
In anticipation of the mayoral elections, Centre for Cities has polled people across the largest mayoral areas. Explore our findings in this briefing.
Metro mayors were more recognisable than local authority leaders and MPs in almost every place that has one, according to new public polling.
Andrew Carter speaks to Paul Swinney and Anthony Breach about the growing influence of Metro mayors.
What are metro mayors and what do they do?
The UK has pledged to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Centre for Cities research shows that our cities and largest towns will have a big role to play in meeting this target.
Three key takeaways on how cities compare to one another in terms of greenhouse gas emissions
Centre for Cities in partnership with TUC Wales show how increasing public transport use in Wales will help Welsh Government boost economic growth and reach net zero.
In fact, cities have a much lower carbon footprint compared to non-urban areas and must play a crucial role in the fight against climate change.
Daniel Knowles shares insights from his new book looking at how dependence on cars affects urban geography, economics, and wellbeing.
Centre for Cities advocates that levelling up should improve standards of living across the country and help every place to reach its productivity potential, with a focus on improving the performance of the UK’s biggest cities as a means to address regional inequalities.
After the 2010 election the Coalition Government, and in particular the Conservative Prime Minister and Chancellor, quickly realised that as part of their plan for repairing the damage done by the...
Labour look set to stick with the term levelling up. Here’s why that’s a good thing.
To what extent does charitable giving in the UK support tackling regional inequalities? To answer this question, this report sets out the geography of charitable giving in the UK, how it relates to local economic performance, and investigates whether the geography of giving meets the geography of need.
Centre for Cities' latest report shows where the UK’s 344 innovation hotspots are across the country and their potential to address the UK’s sluggish productivity growth.
Andrew Carter speaks to Paul Swinney and Anthony Breach about the growing influence of Metro mayors.
Andrew Carter speaks to Rob Johnson about the struggle to target charitable donations at the places that need them
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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.
As well as providing a deep dive into the latest economic data on the UK’s cities and largest towns, this year our flagship publication focuses on the scale and geography of economic inactivity across the country.
Cities Outlook 2022 looks in-depth at the state of UK high streets to get a sense of the short-term impact of the pandemic on Britain's town and city centres and the long-term consequences and implications this has for the Government’s levelling up agenda.
After the most challenging of years, Cities Outlook 2021 assesses the impact of Covid on urban life and on the Government’s promise to level up the economy.
Poor air quality impacts on the health of residents and workers in cities in particular. Cities Outlook 2020 calls for urgent action from local and national government to clean up the air we breathe.
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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