Will levelling up big cities help towns?
Critics who attack city policy as ‘trickle out economics’ are hurting the people they are trying to help.
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What levelling up should do to help town and city centres
As part of levelling up, the Government should create a City Centre Productivity Fund. This is how it would work.
No, big cities haven’t grown at the expense of towns
The idea that recent growth of cities has come at the expense of towns has become a mantra. The problem is, it isn’t true.
The 12 Urban Myths of Christmas
Myth #12: To be a city you have to have a cathedralCathedrals and Monasteries were once symbols of power in locations of importance, but a lot can change over several centuries
The 12 Urban Myths of Christmas
Myth #9: A close relationship with a city is bad for a town’s economyAre towns hampered by the success of nearby cities - or could towns actually benefit from being located near a city?
The myth of the dormitory town
Places assumed to have weak local economies, hollowed-out by a workforce commuting elsewhere, may instead be thriving
How towns win from the great urban exodus
Young people flock to cities for university – but an even larger number of high-skilled people go the other way
Is London really a drain on other parts of the country?
The success of the capital benefits nearby places. The challenge is to ensure that other big UK cities can do the same.
Casting towns as bastions of Brexit ignores the reasons for the referendum result – and how to address them
The Brexit vote highlighted the need to help both struggling towns AND cities, not create a divide between them