UK unemployment tracker
Centre for Cities tracks the latest unemployment claim statistics across the UK's cities and largest towns.
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The role of Glasgow and Edinburgh in the Scottish economy
Join Centre for Cities to discuss the importance of Glasgow and Edinburgh for both Scottish and UK prosperity.
Cities Outlook 2023 Deep Dive Series: Scotland
Drawing on data from Cities Outlook 2023, this short deep dive session focused the key trends in Scotland's cities.
Does Dundee really have a gaming cluster?
Dundee’s expanding gaming sector does look to have helped turn the city’s fortunes around. Now policy should attempt to broaden its sources of growth to encourage the further expansion of its economy.
High streets recovery tracker
Explore the changing levels of activity within the high streets of Britain's cities and large towns from February 2020 to May 2022.
Two Years of Covid: How has the pandemic changed the labour market in our cities?
As the labour market stabilises, claimant count rates in all cities still remain higher than they were pre-pandemic, impacting both the levelling up agenda and the current cost of living crisis.
Should the Government embrace the contemporary Spanish urban model?
Spain’s cities, unlike Britain’s, are typically dominated by a mid-rise urban form. This makes active travel and public transport more effective, and promotes the economic benefits of agglomeration.
Cities Outlook 2022
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.
July 2021: What do the latest statistics tell us about the labour market after ‘Freedom Day’?
Guilherme Rodrigues analyses the latest claimant count and job postings data and warns that some cities look particularly vulnerable as we approach the end of the furlough scheme.
Why we need more electric vehicles, but fewer cars, to reach net zero
Switching to electric vehicles will help us on the road to net zero, but to reach our destination most of us will need to ditch cars entirely.