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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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Oct 29, 2015
Oct 29, 2015
1hr 8 min
We were delighted to welcome the OECD’s Senior Councillor William Tompson to London's Southbank Centre to discuss the extraordinary progress of China's urbanisation and some of the challenges its cities now face.
Drawing from the OECD's recent Urban Policy Review, the talk places China's urbanisation in a global context and shows that the growth of Chinese cities has been relatively successful, despite some of the constraints imposed by national and local policy.
Oct 27, 2015
Oct 27, 2015
46 min
In this month's episode, Andrew looks at the relationship between cities and immigration in the UK, and asks why urban areas tend to be more welcoming to migrants, and how cities can best contribute to the immigration debate. Joining Andrew to discuss these questions are Sunder Katwala, Director of British Future, and Phoebe Griffith, Associate Director for Immigration, Intergration and Communities at the Institute for Public Policy Research.