CEP Urban and Spatial Programme Blog (formerly SERC)
Monday, 24 November 2014
The Non-Met Commission
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[Posted by Prof Henry G. Overman] I've spent a lot of time over the last seven years (since SERC was founded) thinking about how urban...
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
Building homes where we need them
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Finally had a chance to catch-up with Centre for Cities report on where to build homes for Britain's most successful cities. In the t...
Monday, 10 November 2014
Who buys new homes in London?
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There's some interesting figures in this British Property Federation report from earlier this year on purchases of new homes in London ...
Monday, 27 October 2014
Can 'Tech North' take off?
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Posted by Dr Max Nathan, SERC and NIESR Rory Cellan-Jones has a nice article on the BBC website on the prospects for the Government’s ‘Te...
Friday, 3 October 2014
Agglomeration Economies
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[Posted by Prof Henry G. Overman] I've been reading some of the recent material from the Foresight project on cities. In particular, I...
Tuesday, 9 September 2014
Why are the poorest regions in the UK the poorest regions in Northern Europe?
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[Posted by Prof Henry G. Overman] A few weeks ago the map below showed up in my twitter stream. It had been retweeted hundreds of times. ...
Friday, 5 September 2014
Garden Cities
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[Posted by Prof Henry G. Overman] I'm fairly ambivelant about Garden Cities. We clearly need additional housing. The idea of finding s...
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