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Podcasts from Centre for Cities, the think tank dedicated to supporting urban economic growth in the UK

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Podcasts from Centre for Cities, the think tank dedicated to supporting urban economic growth in the UK

    City Talks: "What Manchester thinks today, the world does tomorrow"

    City Talks: "What Manchester thinks today, the world does tomorrow"

    Andrew Carter, Chief Executive of Centre for Cities, is joined by Brian Groom, author and journalist, whose latest book is Made in Manchester: A People’s History of the City That Shaped the Modern World. The Victorians had a phrase, ‘What Manchester thinks today, the world does tomorrow’. Brian discusses the city’s external global image and the web of contradictory political, economic and cultural associations it has had throughout its history.
    This episode is part of Centre for Cities’ City Talks series. Please rate, review and share the episode if you enjoyed it.
    Listen back to Centre for Cities’ previous conversation with Brian Groom on City Talks for a discussion of his previous work, Northerners: A History from the Ice Age to the Present Day.

    • 52 min
    City Minutes: Big cities in the UK and the G7

    City Minutes: Big cities in the UK and the G7

    Director of Policy and Research Paul Swinney is joined by Ant Breach, Associate Director, to discuss Centre for Cities’ new report, Climbing the Summit: Big cities in the UK and the G7.
    How does the geography of the G7’s economies alter our understanding of how well each nation performs? The report highlights the underperformance of the UK’s largest cities relative to their G7 peers, and how this creates a yawning prosperity gap between the UK and G7 leaders the USA, France and Germany. Why are large places like Manchester and Birmingham, that should have an inherent productivity advantage given their size, falling behind? Paul and Ant talk discuss what the next Government should do to try and address the shortfall.
    This episode is part of Centre for Cities’ City Minutes series. Please rate, review and share the episode if you enjoyed it.

    • 13 min
    City Talks: Detroit’s ten-year recovery from bankruptcy

    City Talks: Detroit’s ten-year recovery from bankruptcy

    Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by James L. Tatum III, Director of Detroit Bureau at the Citizens Research Council of Michigan, for a discussion about Detroit, a place which suffered the biggest municipal insolvency in history when it filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy in 2013. They discuss the city’s route back to financial stability and the recovery of its reputation in municipal bond markets. James Tatum is the author of a recent report, An Assessment of Detroit’s Economic Condition and a Critique of its Economic Development Efforts, to be followed by a second paper on the Detroit’s bankruptcy later this month.
    This episode is part of Centre for Cities’ City Talks series. Please rate, review and share the episode if you enjoyed it.

    • 52 min
    City Talks: Tim Leunig

    City Talks: Tim Leunig

    Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Tim Leunig, who has had a notable career being a policy adviser to several senior Cabinet figures including two Chancellors as well as being an award winning economic history academic at the London School of Economics. He talks here about his role in the Government’s Covid-19 furlough scheme, how think tanks can build trust and influence in Whitehall, and what economic historians can teach policymakers.
    This episode is part of Centre for Cities’ City Talks series. Please rate, review and share the episode if you enjoyed it. To stay updated on Tim Leunig’s work, subscribe to his Substack.

    • 1 hr 14 min
    City Talks: Can we address the housebuilding crisis by building on the ‘grey belt’?

    City Talks: Can we address the housebuilding crisis by building on the ‘grey belt’?

    Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Tom Dobson, Managing Director of Quod, Heather Sargent, Barrister at Landmark Chambers, and Ant Breach, Associate Director at Centre for Cities, to discuss the Labour party’s proposals to release land for housing development on what it calls the ‘grey belt’ – poor-quality or unsightly greenbelt land.
    If elected to government, Labour will come under immediate pressure to implement planning reforms and boost housebuilding. Labour has pledged that it would build 1.5 million homes and sees the ‘grey belt’ as an important route to doing so. Are its proposals enough to fill the housebuilding shortfall and relieve the pressure on cities? How would greybelt development work in practice? And what more needs to be introduced?
    This episode is part of Centre for Cities’ City Talks series. Please rate, review and share the episode if you enjoyed it.

    • 1 hr 1 min
    City Talks: Sharing the benefits of a high-tech economy

    City Talks: Sharing the benefits of a high-tech economy

    Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Professor Neil Lee, Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics and author of Innovation for the Masses: How to Share the Benefits of the High-Tech Economy. Neil talks about the patterns that emerge when comparing the characteristics of innovative economies around the world, why policy makers are starting to think and talk differently about Silicon Valley and lessons the UK can learn from Switzerland about using labour policy and devolution to improve economic productivity.
    This episode is part of Centre for Cities’ City Talks series. Please rate, review and share the episode if you enjoyed it.

    • 47 min

Customer Reviews

4.1 out of 5
20 Ratings

20 Ratings

Donado89 ,

Really interesting topics and guests by difficult to hear

The content is great, but you struggle to hear anything if you’re on the train or in any other moderately noisy environment.

new_berry ,

Sound quality needs adjusting

The sound quality is poor compared to other podcasts. I need to have the volume on my headphones high to hear the episodes.

NickbSElondon ,

Great content, terrible audio

I love this and want more but please get some new kit! Also the start and end sound a bit like a hypnosis session. I really enjoyed the episode on Liverpool, could be the makings of an interesting series on the planning histories of individual cities. Thanks

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