Paul Swinney
Centre for Cities
United Kingdom
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What to put in a ‘levelling-up’ Budget
Estimates of lost economic output as a result of underperformance, 2018‘Levelling up’ the UK economy will be a key theme in Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s first budget, and indeed the other... → Read More
Where are all the UK’s new homes being built?
More and more new homes are needed to house a growing population - but where are they springing up? → Read More
Why big cities are crucial to ‘levelling up’
The underperformance of big cities is at the heart of the North-South divide. If the Government is to ‘level up’ the economy then it needs to tackle this major economic problem. → Read More
Cities Outlook 2020
Cities Outlook 2020 is an annual review of the state of urban Britain. This year's focus is on air pollution in UK cities and large towns. → Read More
Why free ports do not hold the answer to job creation in a post-Brexit world
Although free ports are touted by Boris Johnson as a way to bring jobs to struggling areas, lessons from enterprise zones suggest otherwise → Read More
Do universities create local economic growth?
It’s frequently assumed that universities are good for city economic growth, but the reality is less clear-cut → Read More
What the West Midlands’ local industrial strategy means for other places
Many areas will no doubt look to the West Midlands’ newly published local industrial strategy as a template, but they must identify what the barriers to high productivity businesses are in their own areas if they are to be useful → Read More
Why so many people leave London
The UK's capital has grown rapidly, yet more Britons leave the city than arrive. → Read More
Why calls for a manufacturing renaissance will do nothing for places like Burnley
Burnley’s economic performance highlights the dangers of over-reliance on traditional manufacturing → Read More
What Honda’s closure means for Swindon and other cities
Honda’s news shows the need for places to prepare for the eventual loss of their largest employers. But many cities do the exact opposite → Read More
City centres: past, present and future
The recent focus on struggling high streets ignores the success of well-performing city centres and misdiagnoses the real problem: a lack of high-skill jobs → Read More
The UK towns and cities worse off than 100 years ago
While London and Edinburgh surge ahead, some parts of the UK have struggled to keep up. → Read More
How towns win from the great urban exodus
Young people flock to cities for university – but an even larger number of high-skilled people go the other way → Read More
Is London really a drain on other parts of the country?
The success of the capital benefits nearby places. The challenge is to ensure that other big UK cities can do the same. → Read More
Talk of the Town
Talk of the Town The economic links between cities and towns Since the Brexit vote, there has been a great deal of policy debate and focus on ‘left-behind’ towns, and whether consecutive governments have focused too much on cities at the expense of smaller places. But what is overlooked in these debates is the economic relationship between cities and towns, and how this should inform policy.… → Read More
Five reflections on Labour’s call for a manufacturing renaissance
A greater focus on manufacturing will not bring greater prosperity to people living in struggling cities → Read More
Why tackling the ‘long tail’ won’t boost UK productivity
Paul Swinney addresses some of the responses to our analysis of the productivity ‘long tail’ → Read More
Does increasing productivity destroy jobs?
Some sectors have seen job decreases as they’ve become more productive – but have also helped boost jobs in other sectors → Read More
The wrong tail
Why Britain’s ‘long tail’ is not the cause of its productivity problems → Read More
The UK towns and cities with the highest and lowest wages
The towns and cities offering the best incomes aren't always the ones you'd expect. → Read More