Elena Magrini

Cities can offer low-skilled people good economic outcomes that support inclusive growth aims, but inclusive growth cannot come without economic growth.

Centre for Cities

The best way to create resilient town and city centres with a strong demand for local services is to encourage broader jobs growth

Rebecca McDonald and Paul Swinney

The recent focus on struggling high streets ignores the success of well-performing city centres and misdiagnoses the real problem: a lack of high-skill jobs

Rebecca McDonald

This briefing offers a detailed look at the migration patterns of graduates and students to and from Glasgow

Centre for Cities

As a decade of austerity comes to end, this year’s edition of Cities Outlook looks at how city spending has changed.

Rita Beden, Lahari Ramuni, Zach Wilcox and Siri Arntzen

This report presents findings from the first-ever survey of UK city leaders, providing some understanding of their needs and challenges along with recommendations for national policymakers.

Elena Magrini and Naomi Clayton

As robots take over the world of work, this report investigates the types of skills that humans will increasingly need to succeed in the future.

Paul Swinney, Rebecca McDonald and Lahari Ramuni

Towns and cities have different roles to play in the economy, and the success of one is often dependent on the other.

Gabriele Piazza and Naomi Clayton

EU migration is vital to the success of cities, and this includes migrants with both high and low skills.

Centre for Cities

As the UK exits the EU it would be a missed opportunity not to reassess where power rests across the country, and in particular how this applies to cities.