Centre for Cities

The Metropolitan Century with the OECD

Centre for Cities was delighted to host a roundtable as part of the international launch of two new OECD reports Governing the City, which explores how city governance has had an effect on a cities' productivity and growth and The Metropolitan Century which explores what effects the rapid rate of urbanisation could have on the globe, and what the challenges and opportunities are for growing, global cities.

Listen to the presentation from Luiz de Mello, Deputy Director of the Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate at the OECD. You can follow along to the slides on prezi, here.

For more on Centre for Cities programme of events, click here.

City Talks: 10 Years Forward, 10 Years Back

Welcome to City Talks – a new monthly podcast series from Centre for Cities hosted by Andrew Carter. In the first episode, Andrew surveys the last 10 years of cities policy and what we are likely to see in the next 10 years. Discussing the big developments for UK cities are Prof Tony Travers from the LSE, Prof Michael Parkinson from the University of Liverpool and Brian Groom, until recently UK Business and Employment Editor at the Financial Times...