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No City Left Behind?

Authors:  Neil Lee

Date:  July 2010

No city left behind? Investigates what the geography of the recovery is likely to be, and what policymakers can do to shape it.

Managing Change in Yorkshire and Humber Supplementary Paper:Mitigating the impact of public spending

Authors:  Alexandra Jones and Katy Morris

Date:  June 2010

This supplementary paper supports the findings of the report 'Managing Change: Responding to reduced public expenditure in Yorkshire and Humber'.

Flat or Spiky? The changing location of the British knowledge economy

Authors:  Katy Morris

Date:  April 2010

Is the knowledge economy in Britain becoming more or less urbanised?

Driving Economic Recovery: Core Cities - a new partnership with government

Authors:  Will Hutton, Alexandra Jones

Date:  February 2010

This executive summary sets out the agenda for making the eight core cities of the UK at the centre of economic growth and job creation.

Recession, Recovery and Medium - Sized Cities

Authors:  Naomi Clayton and Katy Morris

Date:  February 2010

New research shows how ‘medium-sized’ cities can contribute to economic recovery.

City Relationships: Economic linkages in Northern city regions

Authors:  Alexandra Jones, Naomi Clayton, Lena Tochtermann (Centre for Cities), Paul Hildreth (SURF), Adam Mar

Date:  November 2009

This report sets out how economic links between towns and cities in the North of England can lead to higher levels of sustainable economic growth and development and sets out a typology of different types of economic relationships.

Recession and Recovery: How UK cities can respond and drive the recovery

Authors:  Alexandra Jones, Neil Lee, Katy Morris

Date:  July 2009

New research from The Work Foundation shows that, as in the last recession,low skill cities are struggling the most with unemployment and risk long-term decline.

The Geography of Unemployment

Authors:  Naomi Clayton

Date:  February 2009

How has the recession affected different areas in the UK? This report suggests that large cities outside of London are the worst affected.

Changing Relationships at Work

Date:  January 2009

This report demonstrates the importance of workplace relationships to job satisfaction and highlights the role that technologies can play in creating and maintaining these links.

Embedding Universities in Knowledge Cities

Authors:  Laura Williams, Natalie Turner, Alexandra Jones

Date:  December 2008

This report captures the relationships between universities and cities and investigates how these can be capitalised on for mutual benefit in a knowledge economy.

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