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Cities 2020

Cities 2020 is our research programme dedicated to investigating the drivers of urban growth over the next decade.

The research is aiming to answer the following questions:

What will the geography of the recovery look like over the next decade?
What factors will enable cities to be socially and economically sustainable during the economic recovery and the period to 2020?
What must policy makers do now to ensure success in 2020?

Research areas include:

High-growth firms: How can cities best support the development of more high-growth firms?
Innovation: How can cities enhance their innovation capacity?
Low skills: What is the impact of a shift towards a more knowledge-intensive economy on those with low or no skills? What can be done?
Demand for graduates: How can employers be encouraged to make better use of graduate skills in cities?
City leadership: How can local areas build leadership capacity? How can cities use their business leaders to harness growth?

Related Reports

Streets Ahead: What makes a city innovative?
This Cities 2020 report looks at the geography of innovation, what makes a city successful, and how policy makers can improve the innovative performance of their cities.

Lizzie Crowley
07 December 2011

Off the Map? The geography of NEETs
Launched as part of a research partnership with the Private Equity Foundation, this report examines NEET rates for 16 – 24 year olds across Great Britain.

Neil Lee and Jonathan Wright
01 November 2011

Ready, Steady, Grow? How the government can support the development of more high growth firms
With high growth firms widely recognised as major drivers of growth and job creation, this paper outlines what the government should do to maximise their success.

Charles Levy, Neil Lee and Annie Peate
18 March 2011

Related Events

Economic Development: Innovating for Local Growth?
Cities and local authorities need to innovate to find new ways to drive a new economic destiny and growth, create jobs and leverage private sector finances to support economic development, this event looks into how this can be achieved.

Wed, 11 April 2012
09:00 - 11:00

Wage Inequality in British Cities: A roundtable event
This rountable event will present the initial results of a research project investigating patterns and determinants of wage inequality in cities, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and to be published later this year.

Wed, 29 February 2012
12:00 - 14:00

Related Blogs

Budget offers minor measures to support growth of UK cities
Today’s Budget rightly emphasises the importance of cities in delivering UK growth.

Lizzie Crowley
21 March 2012

What will it take for Tech City to hire locally?
Much has been made of “Tech City”, the growing hub of high-tech firms clustered around Old Street in East London. Three months ago Prime Minister David Cameron applauded the growth of more than 600 technology firms in the area, and the opportunities these could provide. While Tech City is undoubtedly a driver of urban regeneration in Hackney, what exactly does this mean for local residents, and in particular, what does this mean for youth?

Brhmie Balaram
08 March 2012

Exporting homelessness to struggling cities is not the solution we need
For those who can work, secure and lasting employment is surely one of the best routes out of homelessness and poverty. Even if they are given somewhere to live, homeless families and individuals who fail to find work will remain vulnerable - at risk of losing their home again and, at best, reliant on benefits.

Nye Cominetti
22 February 2012

Related News

Cities and regeneration
Lizzie Crowley, reseacher at The Work Foundation, discusses her work on the Cities 2020 programme.

Lizzie Crowley
06 March 2012

Centrally-led growth policy holding back cities outside London
Cities outside of London and the South East are at risk of being left behind by the economic recovery unless the government adopts a less centralised growth and innovation policy.

07 December 2011

Report reveals blackspots for young people not in education, employment or training across Great Britain
A report published tomorrow (4 November) by The Work Foundation and Private Equity Foundation has uncovered ten blackspots for youth disengagement - cities where between one in five and one in four young people are not in education, employment or training (NEET).

Tom Phillips
04 November 2011