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From Cottonopolis to Graphene City… what next for Greater Manchester?

Posted by: Carly Fraser and Alexandra Gardiner, Posted on: 26 January 2015 - Categories: City visions, Living in cities
One Angel Square in Manchester at night (credit: The Co-operative/CC BY 2.0)

What will Greater Manchester look like in 2065?

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Building a brighter future for the north

Posted by: Andrew Carter, Posted on: 20 November 2014 - Categories: Economies, Governance
Andrew Carter at the Northern Futures Summit (Credit: Centre for Cities)

On 6 November, the Centre for Cities and the Deputy Prime Minister’s Office hosted the Northern Futures Summit in Leeds.

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Reviving the economic performance of Britain’s northern cities

Posted by: Professor Ron Martin, Professor Peter Tyler and Ben Gardiner, Posted on: 7 November 2014 - Categories: Economies
View of Tyne Bridge & Millenium Bridge (dan pope/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Writing some 30 years ago, in her classic study on 'Cities and the wealth of nations', the celebrated North American urbanist Jane Jacobs argued that nations are not the basic economic units, rather cities are.

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Time travel in the North West

Posted by: Athlyn Cathcart-Keays, Posted on: 22 May 2014 - Categories: Living in cities, Project update, Regional meetings
View of the Manchester skyline

...‘super-region’ in the North West, similar to the South East region. While this could lead to people moving from cities like Lancaster/Preston to Manchester/Liverpool, this migration would sustain the strength...

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