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City Minutes: Exploring the cities versus towns debateSenior Analyst Kathrin Enenkel on the relationship between UK cities and towns and the implications this has for people and policy makers.
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The levelling up dilemma: innovation here, there or everywhere?
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Why strong cities are crucial for levelling up towns
Ignoring the relationship between cities and towns makes it harder to bring greater prosperity to struggling towns.
Why large French and German cities perform better than their British neighbours
Access to workers, and the skills of those workers, are two big differences between large cities in the UK, France and Germany.
Is London too successful?
Some argue that imbalances in the UK result from London’s overperformance, rather than the underperformance of the country’s next largest cities. Making comparisons with European cities suggests this isn’t the case.
Did ‘Freedom Day’ boost the high street recovery?
Analyst Valentine Quinio explores the latest high street spend and footfall data to establish what impact England’s ‘Freedom Day’ had on consumer behaviour, and what this means for high street recovery.
What does agglomeration mean in British cities?
It is well known that British cities do not get more productive as they get bigger. But a very different picture emerges when looking at city centres with implications for levelling up.
The levelling up dilemma: productivity, employment and wellbeing
Senior Policy Officer Julieta Cuneo picks out key insights from our latest event exploring the dilemmas and tensions present within the levelling up agenda.
Does Nissan provide a model for levelling up?
Red wall MPs point to the success of Sunderland’s Nissan plant as the model the current Government should replicate, but almost 40 years on the city is still in need of being ‘levelled up’.
Can the Government strike the right balance between politics and economics?
Kathrin Enenkel explores the tense relationship between politics and economics within the Government's levelling up agenda.