Local Government

A new economics agenda for a new minister for cities

The government recently announced a new minister for cities. Greg Clark will take on the role, alongside his current responsibilities as minister for decentralisation.

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Flying the flag for the north

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The case for community budgeting is growing

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Divine inspiration

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Public service reform: people power or privatisation?

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Blue sky thinker

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There’s a great opportunity to boost the green economy – we can’t bottle it

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Risky business?

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Championing creativity in all its forms

Jacob Urup Nielsen explains how a British Council project has investigated the different ways in which cities can tap into their creative side

‘Reverse graffiti’ by Moose in Aarhus, Denmark.

Over the past four years the British Council’s Creative Cities project has reached 250,000 people directly in 15 countries across Europe. One of its main aims has been to harness the creativity which exists in cities everywhere to the greater good of the city as a whole.

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Voodoo economic development part II

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Beyond the housing market crisis

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Time to widen our horizons on energy policy?

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Cash in hand

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Putting the local into LEPs

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Halfway to the holy grail?

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