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City Talks: How creative industries drive urban economies

Andrew is joined by Dr Max Nathan, from the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL, and Eliza Easton, Deputy Director of Policy and Communications at Nesta’s Policy and Evidence Centre. Together they analyse the role of creative industries in driving the economic performance of urban areas, highlighting observations from Creative Clusters and Creative Multipliers: Evidence from UK Cities - a paper co-authored by Dr Nathan and published by Economic Geography.

City Minutes: King’s Cross and the role of regeneration

Back in February, as part of the Levelling Up White Paper, the Government announced that 20 transformative regeneration projects would be rolled out across the UK.

Centre for Cities’ latest report published in partnership with Aviva, Making places: The role of regeneration in levelling up, highlights how these zones sit at the heart of the Government's ambitions to deliver swift, economic growth by attracting private sector investment.

For this episode of City Minutes, Researcher Stuart Bridgett and Senior Analyst Anthony Breach join Chief Executive Andrew Carter to debate some of the key findings of the report.

Together, they discuss how the Government can make regeneration schemes viable and explore the learnings, lessons, and exceptions from the King's Cross redevelopment. 

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City Talks: Managing our urban transport networks

For the latest episode of City Talks, Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Transport Commissioner for Greater Manchester, and former managing director at Transport for London, Vernon Everitt.

Together, they discuss the issues in funding public transport networks in the UK and what needs to be done to boost ridership and provide the services cities need.

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City Minutes: How the cost of living crisis is playing out across the UK

The cost of living crisis is dominating headlines, with the debate so far largely focusing on the burden felt by households, individuals and socio-economic groups.

Centre for Cities’ latest report, Out of pocket: the places at the sharp end of the UK’s cost of living crisis examines the crisis using a place-based approach for the very first time, to determine how the current squeeze on incomes is likely to be felt across the UK’s cities and largest towns.

For this episode of City Minutes, Senior Analyst Valentine Quinio and Analyst Guilherme Rodrigues join Chief Executive Andrew Carter to unpack the key findings of the report.

Together, they discuss, the drivers behind the geography of the cost of living crisis, whether the support provided by the Government is enough, and what short term and long term interventions can be put in place to ensure people and places are supported now and in the years to come.

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City Talks: Fixing the intangible economy

Andrew Carter speaks to Chief Executive of the Royal Statistical Society and former government advisor Stian Westlake about his new book, Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy, which he co-authored alongside Jonathan Haskel.

This episode explores how there has been an incomplete transition from an economy based on physical capital to one based on intangible capital - such as ideas, brands, and knowledge. Westlake argues that this has left our economic institutions geared to an outmoded way of doing business, and that an institutional refresh is needed to drive growth and address inequalities.

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City Minutes: How has homeworking impacted urban high streets?

Before Covid, the office-based workforce was key to the health of the high street. Now, despite the reopening of the economy, office workers in some of our strongest cities are yet to return in the numbers we saw pre-pandemic, raising questions over what’s next for our high streets.

For this episode of City Minutes, Senior Analyst Valentine Quinio joins Chief Executive Andrew Carter to set out the main findings of our latest briefing Homeworking and the high street.

They explore the state of play pre-pandemic, how successive lockdowns and shifts to homeworking have impacted high streets, and what - in the context of the ‘new normal’ of hybrid working -  is now needed for city centres to adapt and thrive.  

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City Talks: How has history shaped the North’s identity?

Andrew Carter talks to former Financial Times journalist and Scotland on Sunday editor Brian Groom about his new book Northerners: A History. From the Ice Ages to the 21st Century. 

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City Talks: Delivering the Levelling Up White Paper

Andrew Carter speaks to RSA Chief Executive and former permanent secretary for levelling up Andy Haldane about the work that went into the Government’s Levelling Up White Paper and the challenges of tackling spatial inequality in the UK.

Each episode is part of Centre for Cities’ City Talks series.

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City Minutes: What’s next for the new Mayor of South Yorkshire?

On 5th May, Labour's Oliver Coppard was elected as the new Mayor of South Yorkshire. 

Following on from our South Yorkshire Election Special series, Andrew Carter joined The Yorkshire Post’s Political Editor, Chris Burn, to discuss how having a mayor has benefitted the region so far and the future challenges the new mayor faces.

City Talks: Supporting local economic growth – what lessons has the Government learned?

Centre for Cities Chief Executive Andrew Carter joins the National Audit Office’s Director of Local Service Delivery and Value for Money, Ashley McDougall, and Danielle Mason, from the What Works Centre for Economic Growth, to discuss the findings of the NAO’s Supporting Local Economic Growth report.

 

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