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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.

Ideopolis Driver 2: Building on what's there

Authors:  Neil Lee

Date:  March 2008

This paper seeks to review what policymakers can and cannot take from key areas of urban economics.

Enterprise Priorities to Enterprise Powerhouses: The Public Sector in the Knowledge Economy

Authors:  Naomi Clayton

Date:  January 2008

This report stresses the vital role that public expenditure plays in supporting certain cities across the UK in developing their ‘knowledge’ economies

Distinctiveness and Cities: Beyond 'Find and Replace' Economic Development?

Authors:  Neil Lee

Date:  October 2007

Defines distinctiveness in the context of cities, and explains why it matters

London's Creative Economy: An Accidental Success?

Authors:  John Knell and Kate Oakley

Date:  January 2007

We are writing London’s Creative Economy: An Accidental Success? against the backdrop of the DCMS-led Creative Economy Green Paper Process and a decade after the ‘Creative Industries’ Taskforce first coined the term

Creating an Ideopolis: case study of Manchester

Authors:  Laura Williams, Alexandra Jones and David Coats

Date:  January 2006

Explores Manchester’s strengths, challenges and opportunities within the framework of the nine Ideopolis drivers

Ideopolis: knowledge city-regions. City case studies executive summaries

Authors:  Alexandra Jones and others

Date:  January 2006

Explains that 'knowledge' is widely recognised as vital to the future competitiveness of the UK and EU economy and that cities are also increasingly recognised as critical to both economic prosperity and quality of life

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