City Talks: Comparing regional governments across Europe
Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Arjan Schakel, Research Professor at the University of Bergen and expert on regional governance and territorial politics. They discuss Arjan's work on the Regional Authority Index, which measures the authority in self rule and shared rule exercised by regional governments, in order to get a sense of how regional level authority and autonomy differ across countries.
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City Minutes: Reforming anti-supply measures
Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Ant Breach, Associate Director, to discuss our latest report Breaking the Bottlenecks: Reforming ‘anti-supply measures’ to support urban housebuilding. They dive in to each of the five anti-supply measures we identified that should be reviewed by national Government and in the new version of London Plan as well as the moderate and bold reforms we propose for each measure to help cities play their role in meeting the 1.5m housebuilding target.
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City Minutes: What the local election results mean for the Government's plan for growth
Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Paul Swinney, Director of Policy and Research, to discuss the results of last week's local elections and what they mean for growth in the country. They explore the myth of "left behind" places and how government policy should respond to the political discontent signalled by the rise in votes for Reform UK.
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City Talks: Land power with Professor Michael Albertus
Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Professor Michael Albertus, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. They discuss Michael’s latest book, Land power: who has it, who doesn’t, and how that determines the fate of societies, which tackles how land came to be power within human societies, how it shapes power and how its allocation determines the major social and economic challenges that society has grappled with.
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City Talks: Delivering the Government’s growth mission with Dan Tomlinson
Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Dan Tomlinson, MP for Chipping Barnet since 2024 and the national champion for the Government’s growth mission. They discuss Dan’s background as a councillor and former policy wonk, why he decided to enter the world of politics and his ambitions to help reform the planning system and deliver on the Government’s growth mission.
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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