City Talks from Centre for Cities explores the key issues facing cities and towns in the UK and beyond. Host Andrew Carter interviews leading thinkers in the ur...
City Talks from Centre for Cities explores the key issues facing cities and towns in the UK and beyond. Host Andrew Carter interviews leading thinkers in the ur...
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City Minutes: Do Manchester and Birmingham city centres spread prosperity?
Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Paul Swinney, Director of Policy and Research at Centre for Cities to discuss Paul’s new briefing, Do city centres really benefit their wider areas?. They discuss how improving and expanding Manchester and Birmingham city centres can bring benefits to places like Oldham and West Bromwich, and the role this plays in levelling up.
This episode is part of Centre for Cities’ City Minutes series. Please rate, review and share the episode if you enjoyed it.
20/09/2023
11:40
City Minutes: Where to find the melting pots of the new economy
Director of Policy and Research Paul Swinney is joined by James Evans, Research Fellow at Centre for Cities and author of the new report, Innovation hotspots: Clustering the New Economy, which identifies 344 hotspots of ‘new economy’ activity where promising businesses are clustering together. Paul and James discuss the findings and why new economy hotspots are an urban phenomenon.
This episode is part of Centre for Cities’ City Minutes series. Please rate, review and share the episode if you enjoyed it.
11/09/2023
17:36
City Minutes: Does wealth ‘trickle out’ from cities to nearby places?
Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Paul Swinney, Director of Policy and Research at Centre for Cities to discuss Paul’s new briefing, Trickle Out: How cities help their surrounding towns. They discuss the relationship that big cities have with their surrounding areas, how this impacts on quality of life in nearby places, and how we can help towns take advantage of having a big city nearby.
This episode is part of Centre for Cities’ City Minutes series. Please rate, review and share the episode if you enjoyed it.
4/09/2023
22:53
City Talks: British Rail with Christian Wolmar
Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Christian Wolmar, the writer and broadcaster and specialist in British transport. He is the author of several books, including Fire & Steam: How the Railways Transformed Britain, Are Trams Socialist? Why Britain Has No Transport Policy, and most recently British Rail: A New History, published by Michael Joseph in 2022.
This episode is part of Centre for Cities’ City Talks series. Please rate, review and share the episode if you enjoyed it.
30/08/2023
41:45
City Minutes: How should local government be funded?
Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Researcher Stuart Bridgett, author of Pot Luck: What government needs to do to streamline local government funding, to discuss the Government’s long-anticipated plan to simplify the funding landscape for local authorities, first promised in the 2022 Levelling Up White Paper.
This episode is part of Centre for Cities’ City Minutes series. Please rate, review and share the episode if you enjoyed it.
City Talks from Centre for Cities explores the key issues facing cities and towns in the UK and beyond. Host 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.