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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...

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.

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.

Austerity Towns

City Talks

City Talks: Evidence-based policymaking in disadvantaged places

Series: City Talks

Andrew Carter is joined by a panel to discuss how evidence-based policymaking can help disadvantaged places with low levels of economic activity and high proportions of vulnerable people in the wake of cuts to local authority budgets.

Towns

Unlocking potential: bringing opportunities to disadvantaged places

Elena Magrini

The challenges of left-behind places go well beyond the lack of economic opportunities — the solutions must too.

Levelling up Productivity

Where are the missing workers?

Elena Magrini

While unemployment rates are at a record low, many people remain excluded from the labour market. New research tries to count them across UK cities.

Devolution Levelling up

From ‘bottom up’ to ‘levelling up’: What the Queen’s Speech said about cities

Simon Jeffrey

The Queen’s Speech offered the outlines of a clear programme for cities under a Boris Johnson government – more infrastructure and more mayors, reforms to self-employment and training and social care funding fixed once and for all.

Devolution Levelling up

Where are the main political parties on devolution policy?

Andrew Carter

Making the case for urban devolution is Centre for Cities’ main aim and every year we champion the untapped potential of Britain’s largest urban areas among politicians and key national and...

Devolution Levelling up Mayors

Three pledges from Andy Street and how he is delivering on them

Elena Magrini

Two and a half years on from his election, we look at what Andy Street has prioritised as West Midlands’ Mayor

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