In a three-part podcast series hosted by Chief Executive Andrew Carter, members of Centre for Cities’ research team explore the findings and implications of our annual health check of UK cities and large towns, focusing on levelling up, economic inactivity, and the data presented in Cities Outlook 2023.

PART 1 | City Minutes: A lost year of levelling up 

This special City Minutes trilogy examines the findings of Cities Outlook 2023 – Centre for Cities’ flagship economic health check of the UK’s urban areas. For Part One of this series, Andrew Carter is joined by Director of Policy and Research Paul Swinney to discuss Chapter One of the report, reviewing the progress of UK policy in 2022 and examining its future in the coming year.

PART 2 | City Minutes: The UK’s army of hidden workers

This is Part 2 of a three-part series exploring the findings of Cities Outlook 2023 – Centre for Cities’ flagship economic health check of the UK’s urban areas. In this episode, Andrew Carter is joined by Senior Analyst Valentine Quinio and Researcher Olivia Vera to discuss Chapter Two of the report, which highlights the scale and geography of economic inactivity.

PART 3 | City Minutes: How are our urban areas performing?

This is the final episode of the three-part podcast series exploring the findings of Cities Outlook 2023 – Centre for Cities’ flagship economic health check of the UK’s urban areas. In this episode, Andrew Carter is joined by Researcher Olivia Vera to discuss Chapter Three of the report, which uses a range of indicators to analyse the economic performance of the UK’s 63 and large towns. This discussion focuses specifically on five indicators, including productivity, new economy firms, knowledge jobs, wages, and CO2 emissions to see how these play out across the country.