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Centre for Cities is the leading think tank dedicated to improving the economies of the UK’s largest cities and towns. In these podcasts, Chief Executive Andrew Carter interviews leading thinkers in the urban policy field, as well as experts from Centre for Cities about their research and ideas on improving the economies of cities and large towns.
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City Minutes: Restarting housebuilding
57 minutes ago
57 minutes ago
Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Ant Breach, Associate Director and Maurice Lange, Analyst to discuss the findings of our new report series ‘Restarting housebuilding’ that looks at Private and Public housebuilding as well as Land Value Capture. They discuss the current policy landscape, including the Government's pledge to build 1.5million new homes, and the implications of these reports for any future housebuilding reforms.
Wednesday Nov 20, 2024
City Minutes: Spending time
Wednesday Nov 20, 2024
Wednesday Nov 20, 2024
Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Rob Johnson, Analyst, and Oscar Selby, Researcher, to discuss Centre for Cities’ new report, ‘Spending time: the role of the visitor economy in UK cities’. The report explores what visitors to different places spend their money on and how this shapes local economies.
Andrew, Rob and Oscar discuss the key findings from the report, including which cities can be classed as a destinations and the differences between day and overnight visitors.
Tuesday Nov 19, 2024
City Talks: Lessons from the US industrial strategy with Mark Muro
Tuesday Nov 19, 2024
Tuesday Nov 19, 2024
In this episode of City Talks Andrew Carter, Chief Executive of Centre for Cities, is joined by Mark Muro, senior fellow at Brookings Metro, to discuss place based industrial strategy.
They explore what the UK can learn from the US, the CHIPS Act, as well as the implications of Donald Trump's re-election.
Thursday Nov 14, 2024
City Talks: In conversation with the Rt Hon Greg Clark
Thursday Nov 14, 2024
Thursday Nov 14, 2024
This episode of City Talks is taken from a recent Centre for Cities keynote event with The Rt Hon Greg Clark, in partnership with Warwick Business School.
MP for Tunbridge Wells from 2005 - 2024, Greg Clark served as Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and as Financial Secretary to the Treasury as well as many other Ministerial positions.
Chief Executive Andrew Carter joined Greg to discuss his time in government, industrial strategy and devolution.
Wednesday Nov 06, 2024
City Talks: Industrial Strategy with Giles Wilkes
Wednesday Nov 06, 2024
Wednesday Nov 06, 2024
In this episode of City Talks Andrew Carter, Chief Executive of Centre for Cities, is joined by Giles Wilkes, senior fellow at the Institute for Government, specialist partner at Flint Global and former advisor to Vince Cable and Theresa May to discuss industrial strategy and the recent Green Paper.
They explore what we might expect from this Government's strategy, some of the similarities with the 2017 version, as well as what merits, if any, come from having an industrial strategy in this country.
Thursday Oct 31, 2024
City Minutes: English Devolution
Thursday Oct 31, 2024
Thursday Oct 31, 2024
Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Anthony Breach, Associate Director at Centre for Cities, to discuss our latest briefing on the upcoming English Devolution White Paper. They discuss their concerns on where the devolution debate currently is and some of the unresolved questions and issues still circulating around the purpose of devolution, what is trying to be achieved and how it should be progressed.
Thursday Oct 10, 2024
City Talks: Professor Sarah Hall
Thursday Oct 10, 2024
Thursday Oct 10, 2024
In this episode of City Talks Andrew Carter, Chief Executive of Centre for Cities, is joined by Sarah Hall, 1931 Professor of Geography and Fellow of St John’s College Cambridge. They discuss her research on the economic geography of financial services and the uneven economic development that results from global finance dynamics.
In addition, Sarah and Andrew consider these global finance networks and how cities like London maintain their influence in global markets, particularly in the wake of Brexit.
Thursday Sep 26, 2024
City Talks: Ed Glaeser and the future of global cities
Thursday Sep 26, 2024
Thursday Sep 26, 2024
Ed Glaeser has written several books on the role of cities in creating prosperity over the last two decades – including The Triumph of the City in 2008. In this podcast, Ed and Andrew consider the future of cities as places of work, consumption, and economic activity.
Thursday Sep 19, 2024
City Talks: Arpit Gupta
Thursday Sep 19, 2024
Thursday Sep 19, 2024
In this episode of City Talks Andrew Carter, Chief Executive of Centre for Cities, is joined by Arpit Gupta, Associate Professor of Finance at New York University Stern School of Business, to discuss his research into the dynamics of urban real estate markets, and how they have evolved in response to changes in remote working and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Thursday Sep 12, 2024
City Talks: Why we are seeing a boom in urban economics research
Thursday Sep 12, 2024
Thursday Sep 12, 2024
Andrew discusses how urban economics is advancing – from new topics and new sources of data to the theoretical developments of the moment – with three people immersed in the latest research.
Andrew Carter, Chief Executive of Centre for Cities, is joined by Neil Lee, Professor of Economic Geography at LSE, Helen Simpson, Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol, and Max Nathan, Professor of Economic Geography at University College London. They discuss the state of research about urban economies in 2024.
We are constantly finding out more about where people live and work, how people move around, where businesses choose to locate, and where people spend their money – all of which adds more depth to our picture of cities. The three researchers describe how new topics are emerging, the enduring relevance of some core urban questions, and how new sources of data – and innovative tools for processing it – are moving research forward, at a time of increasing demand for evidence to shape policy.