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City Talks: Measuring city performance in the modern economyHow should the performance of cities in the modern economy be measured? This podcast explores the issues.
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Lessons for the Industrial Strategy from the past century of labour market change
Northern cities have been hit hard by the loss of jobs in exporting firms in the past century. Ensuring this doesn’t happen again should be a priority for local industrial strategies.
Four reasons UK cities would benefit if supermarkets were more like Wetherspoons
‘Price flexing’ reflects the logic of devolution – and would help both cities and supermarkets prosper in future.
Three reasons why business rates reform would help firms as well as cities
Changes are needed to make the system fairer and more transparent for businesses
The five biggest issues in urban policy in 2017
Andrew Carter reflects on the key themes and developments for UK cities in the past 12 months
Funding and financing inclusive growth in cities
How cities can unlock more investment for inclusive growth policies
City Horizons: Professor Ron Martin
We were joined by Professor Ron Martin for our City Horizons series of events discussing the resilience of cities following economic shocks.
Business rates: maximising the growth incentive across the country
How the Government can ensure that business rates devolution supports long-term economic growth in cities across the country
A strategic oversight? Why the Industrial Strategy will struggle to address the UK’s productivity problem
Reducing place to one of a number of ‘foundations’ will limit the ability of the Industrial Strategy to tackle the UK’s productivity malaise
Budget 2017: the Chancellor has put cities at centre stage again
The Budget seems to have signalled a re-ignition of interest from the Government in cities and devolution.