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Coronavirus Future of cities Productivity The Future of Work

How will Coronavirus affect jobs in different parts of the country?

Elena Magrini

Uncertainty for self-employed people, home-working and the importance of agglomeration – the impact of Coronavirus on employment will be felt differently across the UK

Productivity

City Talks

City Talks: How government works — lessons from HS2 with Professor Tony Travers

Series: City Talks

After years of speculation and debate, the Government has given the go-ahead to HS2 — Britain’s biggest infrastructure project for a generation that promises to drive economic growth,...

Austerity

Tackling toxic air in our cities is also a matter of social justice

Valentine Quinio

When comparing the latest deprivation data to nitrogen dioxide background concentration data, the relationship is clear: the most polluted areas are also disproportionately poorer.

Levelling up Productivity

Measuring ‘levelling up’

Elena Magrini

This briefing presents two new indexes to summarise and compare the performance of the UK's largest cities and towns. The findings have implications for policy, particularly the Government’s ‘levelling up’ agenda.

Levelling up Productivity

How do business and employment opportunities vary across the country?

Elena Magrini

Local data is crucial to understand the reasons behind the UK’s economic divide and what this means for the ‘levelling-up’ agenda.

Future of cities Productivity

Why big cities are crucial to ‘levelling up’

Paul Swinney and Kathrin Enenkel

The underperformance of big cities is at the heart of the North-South divide. If the Government is to ‘level up’ the economy then it needs to tackle this major economic problem.

Brexit

What does the future hold for cities’ post-Brexit trade?

Paul Swinney

As the UK exits the EU, what does the profile of exports up and down the country mean for the nature of future trade deals?

Austerity

How can we support disadvantaged places after austerity?

Meg Kaufman

As Centre for Cities prepares to launch Cities Outlook 2020 on Monday, I wanted to raise a final shout out for last year’s Cities Outlook, which focussed on the impact of austerity. As the...

Productivity

City Talks

City Talks: How to spread tech innovation with Mark Muro

Series: City Talks

Since the UK general election, there has been much discussion about using R&D as an instrument to level-up the country. But policymakers are grappling with exactly how to support more...

Levelling up Productivity

Why the geographical spread of R&D investment matters when trying to level-up the economy

Andrew Carter

Andrew Carter on why the geographical spread of R&D investment matters when trying to level-up the economy.

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