City Minutes Trilogy: How are our urban areas performing?

This is the final episode of the three-part podcast series exploring the findings of Cities Outlook 2023 – Centre for Cities’ flagship economic health check of the UK’s urban areas. In this episode, Andrew Carter is joined by Researcher Olivia Vera to discuss Chapter Three of the report, which uses a range of indicators to analyse the economic performance of the UK’s 63 and large towns. This discussion focuses specifically on five indicators, including productivity, new economy firms, knowledge jobs, wages, and CO2 emissions to see how these play out across the country.