City Talks: Rt Hon Greg Clark on the new Industrial Strategy
Centre for Cities’ Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Rt Hon Greg Clark, member of the Industrial Strategy Advisory Council and former Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
With Government’s Industrial Strategy White Paper published, Greg explains what the Advisory Council will do next and how industrial policy relates to other area of the Government’s growth plan.
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City Talks: Remote working and the future of cities
Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Matt Clancy, Senior Programme Officer at Open Philanthropy and the creator of New Things Under the Sun, a living literature review on social science research about innovation. Drawing on Matt's interest in science, innovation and technology they discuss hybrid working, productivity, cities and the future of work.
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City Minutes: The varying perfomance of high streets
Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Paul Swinney, Director of Policy and Research, to discuss the findings of our latest report 'Checking out: The varying performance of high streets across the country'. They dive into why high streets perform differently from city to city and what can be done to further improve successful high streets and turn around the centres most struggling.
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City Talks: Delivering new towns
Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Tom Aubrey, Founder of Credit Capital Advisory and Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE, and Maurice Lange, Analyst at Centre for Cities. Drawing on Tom's knowledge of financing housing and infrastructure in the UK they discuss how to deliver projects at the scale of a new town, looking at the organisation and coordination of a project as well as the funding.
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City Minutes: Enterprise Zones
Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Victoria Sutherland, Deputy Director of Evidence at the What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth to discuss their recent rapid evidence review on Enterprise Zones. The need for an evidence-backed approach is all the more relevant as Government's new Industrial Strategy puts a 'zone' approach at the centre of its plan for growth with Investment Zones and Freeports becoming Industrial Strategy Zones and new AI Growth Zones being announced.
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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