General Election 2019
Underperforming bus services are Metro Mayors’ responsibility nowWhoever wins in Westminster on December 12th, the buck now stops with metro mayors for the quality of bus services in their city, argues Simon Jeffrey.
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Urban Voices 2019: What do cities need from the next government?
Launch of the UK City Leaders' Survey 2019
Delivering change — improving urban bus transport
Buses are critical urban infrastructure. But the number of journeys made on them has declined in almost all cities apart from London for the past few decades. This report cites deregulation...
Everything you need to know about metro mayors
In May 2017 six new metro mayors were elected in combined authorities across England, but what are they and what do they do?
R-AMP it Up! What does Sheffield City Region’s Advanced Manufacturing Park tell us about cities and the Industrial Strategy?
Encouraging innovation should be central to the Government’s Industrial Strategy. But who should foot the bill for interventions in innovation? This is a question highlighted in our recent work on the Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Park.
Mayors: the run-up to 2020
How Dan Jarvis uses his limited powers to improve Sheffield’s skills provisionThe Sheffield City Region authority doesn’t yet have the powers of other metro mayors, but the mayor’s support of the Sheffield Children’s University highlights how he can still target the challenges his area faces.
Innovation for the nation?
This event launched our work looking at how to encourage innovation policy and where, with Lord David Sainsbury
Parks and innovation
How can policymakers foster business innovation within local and national industrial strategy? This report sets out lessons from Sheffield's Advanced Manufacturing Park, which is helping to transform the city region from a place of low-cost production to one of high-value knowledge output
The end of austerity? Doncaster after 2020
Catch up with our event discussing what the end of austerity could mean for Doncaster
Urban voices
Centre for Cities and Arup were delighted to host a reception for the launch of the inaugural UK City Leaders Survey 2018