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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Samuel Watling to discuss Centre for Cities' new report, The Housebuilding Crisis, which examines how the UK's outdated planning laws have created a backlog of 4.3 million homes since 1955.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.

City Minutes Trilogy: A lost year of levelling up

This special City Minutes trilogy examines the findings of Cities Outlook 2023 – Centre for Cities’ flagship economic health check of the UK’s urban areas. For Part One of this series, Andrew Carter is joined by Director of Policy and Research Paul Swinney to discuss Chapter One of the report, reviewing the progress of UK policy in 2022 and examining its future in the coming year.

City Talks: Reviving England’s seaside towns

Andrew is joined by urban economic development expert John Houghton to discuss his Solving the riddle of the sands blog series, which examines how we can revive England's struggling seaside towns.

City Minutes: Kickstarting the new economy

Andrew Carter is joined by Centre for Cities' Director of Policy and Research, Paul Swinney, to discuss the findings of our new report: At the Frontier: The geography of the UK's new economy. The report explores how new economy advanced tech industries are created in urban areas and what the Government should do to seize these opportunities.

 

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City Talks: What does the future look like for local government?

Andrew is joined by Professor Tony Travers from the London School of Economics to reflect on the current place of local government in the UK. This episode examines what impacts last week's Autumn Statement could have on local authorities and what the future holds for them throughout this Parliament and beyond.

City Talks: Examining the CHIPS and Science Act

Andrew is joined by Mark Muro, Senior Fellow at Brookings Metro, to discuss the US Government’s Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors and Science Act (the CHIPS Act), recently signed into law by President Joe Biden. This episode examines how the new $280bn programme can drive growth and innovation across US cities and what lessons could be learned for the UK’s levelling up agenda.