Centre for Cities @CentreforCities
The Centre for Cities is an independent think tank dedicated to improving the economies of the UK's largest cities and towns centreforcities.org UK Joined June 2010-
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📌2024 Local Elections – Implications for urban England Amidst a backdrop of difficulties for local government, what might this year’s local elections mean for urban governance across England? @JessTulasiewicz explores some of this year's key contests 👇 loom.ly/wxgsY7U
📅 As the dust settles from the mayoral and local elections, join @Paul_Swinney to discuss the results. What do they mean for urban Britain and the future of devolution, and what – if anything – they tell us ahead of the #GeneralElection? Register now👇 loom.ly/E1m-CDI
❓Will we see an increase in turnout at the #MetroMayor elections? ❓Have candidates in new mayoral combined authorities done enough to motivate voters to go to the polls? @audreyflavoie explores what this might mean for the success of devolution👇 loom.ly/6hsdrWc
Policy should, whenever possible, be enacted on clear evidence that it will work. In many cases, this doesn’t happen. In his latest blog Analyst @__robjohnson__ explores the findings of our new report on the key pillars of evidence-based policy making👇 loom.ly/lF4o88Y
Only 1 week to go until the #MetroMayor election 📅 Join us on Tuesday along with @RobParsonsNorth and @pennycenturyy for the latest insights and issues driving voting intention and where and what to watch as results emerge. Register now👇 loom.ly/5If8Fik
📌#MetroMayors should lead on transport policy The Government should expand and deepen devolution to give London-style transport powers to mayors across England. External Affairs Manager Caitlin Rollison explains why in her latest blog 🔍👇 loom.ly/I8buqEc
What powers do #MetroMayors have? 🤔 The powers of each mayor vary but they are responsible for setting out a strategy for growing the economy in their area and issues such as housing, transport and skills. Find out what powers your metro mayor has ⬇️ loom.ly/mmj727s
Are you looking to take your first step in the world of policy and research? Would you like to gain in-depth experience of a range of research duties? Centre for Cities is #hiring an Economic Research Intern 💼 Don't miss out, apply now 👇 loom.ly/wM6UXi0
🔎 In case you missed it... Our latest report from @__robjohnson__ with support from @whatworksgrowth sets out the three pillars of evidence-based policy-making...incentives, resources and capacity 🏛️ Read more 👇 loom.ly/hTY8QNY
"Differing definitions of cities means that sometimes when we're arguing about priorities for towns vs cities we're actually agreeing." @AndrewCities chatted with @ahawksbee, the Government’s Towns Tsar, in our latest City Talks podcast🎧 Listen now👇 loom.ly/F2MvLxs
🗞️ It's newsletter week at Centre for Cities Subscribe for our latest research, upcoming events, podcasts and data in your inbox every second Thursday. Subscribe here 👉 loom.ly/zva3SI8
📅 TOMORROW | It's not too late to join us at the fourth and final installment of our Urban Futures event series with @LSEnews. Join us to explore how we can create energy-efficient, carbon neutral and climate resilient housing 🌎 Register your place👇 loom.ly/SsakZlM
"The possibility of extending Nottingham's tram network has been a key talking point" 🚋 @OliverPridmore from @nottslive discusses the key races in the East Midlands ahead of their first-ever #MetroMayor elections next week. Listen now 👇🎧 loom.ly/INR-BDI
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Ant Breach @AntBreach
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Jack Shaw @JackTShaw
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Adam Hawksbee @ahawksbee
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Catriona Riddell @CatrionaRiddel1
3K Followers 2K Following Scottish. Town planner. Love 80s & country music! Tweets mainly about these things!
Chris 🥑🌹 @yimbychris
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Tom Bridges @bridges_tom
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Jordan @jordanbhx
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Neil McInroy @nmcinroy
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4K Followers 2K Following Cares about cities, people and our everyday experience. Believes in making things happen...
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UTMC @UTMCProject
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12K Followers 2K Following Princesa de Asturias Chair & Professor of Economic Geography at the LSE. Past President Regional Science Association International. Editor, Economic Geography.
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Neil McInroy @nmcinroy
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Chris Poulton @CPoulton_
484 Followers 2K Following Was @ctpoulton - Civil Servant & Town Planner. Nationally Significant Infrastructure Planning @luhc Kings Cross resident🏃🏻🚲🏳️🌈 OwnViews - he/him
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3K Followers 2K Following Research Director at the Resolution Foundation. Previous lives at the Bank of England and in the civil service. Focussed mainly on macroeconomics (mainly).
Tom Dobson @tomdobbo
523 Followers 793 Following Managing Director @quodplanning MRTPI Londoner, Planner ⚒️
Anna Valero @asvalero
2K Followers 522 Following Economist, Distinguished Policy Fellow, Director - CEP Growth Programme and Deputy Director - Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID) at the LSE
Incentives, resources, and capacity are needed for evidence-based local economic policy making. This blog latest report findings, and suggests some short- and long-term changes to achieve this. Below are some stats that stood out to me when writing this:
✍️Without the right incentives, little progress can be made Short and long term change is needed if local government is to have the incentives, resources, and capacity to do evidence-based economic policy. @__robjohnson__ explores further in his blog👇 loom.ly/lF4o88Y
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Don't miss the fourth and final installment of our Urban Futures event series with @LSEnews 📅 We'll explore how to create climate resilient housing and the policy needed to accelerate the decarbonisation of the UK’s housing stock. Register your place👇 loom.ly/SsakZlM
Perks include apples, biscuits, and nice colleagues
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💡Come for the title 📚 Stay for the diagnosis of why evidence-based policy making doesn't happen in local economic development, and how to fix it 👇
Delighted to be elected Labour Students London Rep 🌹 Biggest congratulations to all our wonderful @Organise24 candidates, and to @arailwayboy on a hard fought campaign. @Sud3nazTop and I pledged to get London Labour Students and Youth election-ready. That work starts now.
Need to double down on Mayors say @FT editorial - England’s promising experiment with metro mayors ft.com/content/594ee2…
At @CentreforCities towers the researchers are already working on a series of blogs about literally this one tweet by @ianvisits @XuanruL42 & @maurice_a_lange say Covid and hybrid working didn't lead to any change in migration trends👇 centreforcities.org/blog/during-co… More next week...
Why build more railways when everyone works from home now?
Such an interesting poll from @CentreforCities on the Mayoral Elections across the country. ⚫️ Estimates only 40% of the NE population will vote ⚫️ Housing and transport are the key policy powers that people wanted to see at a local level centreforcities.org/publication/pl… #NEMCA
📰 On the front page of @yorkshirepost today: 👨👩👧👦 More people can name their mayor than can name their local MP, according to @CentreforCities poll with @focaldataHQ Places having visible and accountable leaders is 👍 Read up on the findings here 📊 centreforcities.org/press/metro-ma…
YORKSHIRE POST: China spies’ cyber attacks on UK #TomorrowsPapersToday
I'm doing a session in April talking about the problems with local finances and our ideas for fixing it with fiscal devolution - sign up here if you're interested!
Local taxes, national growth? Lower council tax, same revenues? Getting your head around fiscal devolution can be complicated, but @AntBreach is on hand to tell us how it all adds up. 📆Thursday 11th April from midday - register here➡️ loom.ly/X2UZZm8
Building more Georgian houses is how we make housebuilding more popular My piece in the @TheHouseMag featuring research from @CentreforCities and @ASI 🏘️ politicshome.com/thehouse/artic…
Some people in Greater Manchester want Andy Burnham to have more power, according to a new poll. The @CentreforCities poll also found that 83 per cent of people here can name the mayor, nearly double the number able to name their local MP @MENnewsdesk manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-m…
"Devolution is shifting local election away from politics and toward place". @CentreforCities on Mayoral Election 2024. The implications of this could be very significant for all political parties. centreforcities.org/event/2024-may… #devolution #place #cities
Mayors more recognisable to public than local authority leaders or MPs 👀 @CentreforCities centreforcities.org/publication/pl…
Fascinating @CentreforCities data in today's Northern Agenda shows how metro mayors are better-known than MPs in all but 1 area of the North (South Yorks being the exception) Are these roles a better choice now for politicians wanting to make an impact? …letters.e.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/-h01py7-GeTRBC…
Latest @Caf report on UK giving matches @CentreforCities findings that many poorer areas have more generous donors. Also contains our recommendations for the charity sector to help giving tackle regional inequality. Make Levelling Up Charity Partnerships happen!
People donated a record £14,000,000,000 to charity last year trib.al/x4akKzq
One of the purported benefits of devolution was that mayors would be more recognisable (& so accountable) than local authority leaders. Has this come to pass? We polled 3,455 people to find out:
"Mayors are much more recognisable than other prominent local politicians" NEW RESEARCH | Place over politics: What polling tells us about how successful devolution has been to date. Ahead of the mayoral elections we polled people across the largest mayoral areas.🧵👇
Looking forward to this conversation later - come along if you're keen on urban areas and want to make them even better!
It's not too late to join us for today's event 'Why cities need denser housing' 🏘️ As part of our Urban Futures event series with @LSEnews we will be joined by expert speakers @JamesLewisLab, @AntBreach, @PhilMayall_Muse of and Nancy Holman. Register⬇️ ow.ly/fx9c50QXv1L
But a return to rapid housebuilding rates more generally is needed if costs are to fall for all Londoners. Any incoming Mayor will need to encourage dense developments, small and large, across, and around the Capital.
@SadiqKhan is right. Social housebuilding at scale is needed, at the very least, to enable local authorities to address the sharpest end of the housing crisis, reduce homelessness, overcrowding and the use of private-rented ‘temporary’ accommodation.
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