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Gabriele Piazza rounds up the key themes from our recent round table event on Birmingham’s skills challenges
Low interest rates have no doubt pushed up house prices, but the root of the housing crisis in our most successful cities is supply
The population of most UK cities is getting older, which will put further pressure on stretched local authority budgets
A new court ruling could result in UK cities being required by law to improve local air quality
The fall in emissions in urban industry has helped cut UK CO2 levels, but reductions in transport emissions have been much more modest
Increased automation and globalisation will pose big challenges to all cities – but those with mayors are better placed to act
The decline of the city’s performance in a number of key areas has important implications for the Industrial Strategies
Without fundamental reform of local government finance, more cities will face a funding crisis in the coming years
Northern cities have been hit hard by the loss of jobs in exporting firms in the past century. Ensuring this doesn’t happen again should be a priority for local industrial strategies.
Local economic data is often incomplete and problematic. Only by analysing how cities fare across the full range of indicators can we hope to gauge their performance.