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Urban Voices: UK City Leaders’ Survey 2019

Tatjana Neuhuber, Simon Jeffrey, Siri Arntzen and Zach Wilcox

This report presents findings from the second survey of UK city leaders, providing some understanding of their needs and challenges along with recommendations for national policymakers.

High Streets

What’s in store for Swindon?

25 November 2019

A workshop looking at the prospects for Swindon's urban centre

Devolution Future of cities High Streets Housing Levelling up Local Industrial Strategies Mayors Productivity The Future of Work

General Election 2019

An urban manifesto

Andrew Carter

A five point plan to improve cities' prosperity and re-balance the national economy.

Austerity Devolution Future of cities Housing Levelling up Mayors Productivity The Future of Work

Our Urban Manifesto – General Election 2019

Andrew Carter

What is the best way to boost the economy and make the whole country more prosperous?

Future of cities High Streets

General Election 2019

What should the new government do to help our high streets and city centres?

Lahari Ramuni

Not all high streets are struggling — those that are thriving are doing so because they function well as places of work. For this reason, policies to address the decline of high streets must also address the underlying economic causes if they are to be success.

Devolution Future of cities

City Minutes

City Minutes: Improving urban bus transport

Series: City Minutes

Simon Jeffrey, policy officer at the Centre for Cities joins Chief Executive Andrew Carter to set out how metro mayors should begin the process of bringing local bus networks under their control via franchising in order to support economic growth, reduce congestion and improve air quality in cities.

Future of cities

Delivering change — improving urban bus transport

Simon Jeffrey

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...

Levelling up Productivity

General Election 2019

How can the next government boost productivity and prosperity across the country?

Paul Swinney

Two big domestic issues that the next government will be pressed to address are the UK economy’s poor productivity performance and the north-south divide. Paul Swinney argues that these challenges are one of the same.