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City Minutes: Is the Midlands Engine firing on all cylinders?

Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Senior Analyst Anthony Breach and Researcher Matthew Coombes to discuss Centre for Cities’ recent report, All Cylinders: the Role of the Midlands Engine in the UK Economy, which shows that the Midlands economy is largely urban and explores the kinds of economic activity happening in the region.

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City Talks: London and the rise of hybrid working

Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Dan Graham, Professor of Statistical Modelling at Imperial College London, and Paul Swinney, Director of Policy and Research at Centre for Cities, who are both co-authors of a new Centre for Cities report, Office Politics: London and the rise of home working.

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City Talks: How inequality is changing

Joining Chief Executive Andrew Carter is James Plunkett, Group Chief Practices Officer at Nesta and author of End State: 9 Ways Society is Broken and How We Fix It and the Future State blog on Substack. They discuss James’ recent article, Unequality: When inequality changes, our strategies must too, which is the third in a three-part series of essays for a project with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Social justice in a digital age.

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Tackling regional economic inequality in the UK

Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Anna Stansbury, Assistant Professor in Work and Organization Studies at MIT Sloan and co-author (with Ed Balls and Dan Turner) of a working paper titled Tackling the UK’s regional economic inequality: Binding constraints and avenues for policy intervention.

 

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City Minutes: London’s role in the UK’s productivity slowdown

Andrew is joined by Analyst Guilherme Rodrigues and Researcher Stuart Bridgett to discuss the findings of Centre for Cities' new report, entitled Capital Losses: The role of London in the UK's productivity puzzle.

City Minutes: Addressing the UK’s housebuilding crisis

Andrew is joined by Senior Analyst Anthony Breach and Research Assistant Samuel Watling to discuss Centre for Cities' new report, The Housebuilding Crisis, which examines how the UK's outdated planning laws have created a backlog of 4.3 million homes since 1955.  

City Talks: Tackling regional divides in Germany

Andrew is joined by Dr Felix Rösel, from the University of Braunschweig, and former Centre for Cities Senior Analyst Kathrin Enenkel to discuss the findings of their paper entitled: German Reunification: Lessons from the German approach to closing regional economic divides. 

City Talks: Lessons from the world of regional development

Andrew is joined by economist and former civil servant David Higham. This episode focuses on David’s time working under Michael Heseltine in the 1990s and how the approach to regional economic growth has developed in recent decades.

City Minutes Trilogy: How are our urban areas performing?

This is the final episode of the three-part podcast series exploring the findings of Cities Outlook 2023 – Centre for Cities’ flagship economic health check of the UK’s urban areas. In this episode, Andrew Carter is joined by Researcher Olivia Vera to discuss Chapter Three of the report, which uses a range of indicators to analyse the economic performance of the UK’s 63 and large towns. This discussion focuses specifically on five indicators, including productivity, new economy firms, knowledge jobs, wages, and CO2 emissions to see how these play out across the country.

City Minutes Trilogy: The UK’s army of hidden workers

This is Part 2 of a three-part series exploring the findings of Cities Outlook 2023 – Centre for Cities’ flagship economic health check of the UK’s urban areas. In this episode, Andrew Carter is joined by Senior Analyst Valentine Quinio and Researcher Olivia Vera to discuss Chapter Two of the report, which highlights the scale and geography of economic inactivity.