CEP Urban and Spatial Programme Blog (formerly SERC)
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
The Making of Modern London
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[By Stephan Heblich, Steve Redding and Daniel Sturm] Modern metropolitan areas include vast concentrations of economic activity, with Gre...
Monday, 15 October 2018
How much will households pay to avoid council tax?
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[By Ted Pinchbeck and Hans Koster ] Are you paying attention? In many situations research suggests not. For example, when we buy things o...
Monday, 1 October 2018
Incubators, accelerators and local economic development
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Posted by Max Nathan, Birmingham University and CEP I’ve written a new CEP Discussion Paper on co-working, incubators, accelerators and w...
Monday, 24 September 2018
There is a housing crisis: there are not enough houses being built and they are becoming ever less affordable; and they are getting smaller…
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[By Prof Paul Cheshire] As a species we are very well honed not to face unpleasant facts. We mock the ostrich but humans have head-burying...
Tuesday, 7 August 2018
The Beeching Axe: the consequences of massive rail disinvestment
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By Steve Gibbons, Stephan Heblich and Ted Pinchbeck Did pulling up nearly half of Britain’s railways in the 1950s, 60s and 70s affect ...
Wednesday, 11 July 2018
Turning Brownfields Around: the Role of Demand in Land Re-Development
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Land demand is high in cities. Cities have access to good jobs, people and specialized consumption services. High demand and the limite...
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