events 2009
City Transport and the Recession - tough choices ahead
Date: 08/12/2009
How vulnerable are transport budgets in the spending squeeze - and how should cities respond? Join our cross party panel including Rt Hon Sadiq Khan MP and Stephen Hammond MP for lively debate, driven by audience questions.
Dermot Finch's speech to the Leeds City Region Summit 2009
Date: 27/11/2009
Dermot congratulated Leeds City Region on the signing of their pilot programme, but asked where next for city-regions and regional development agencies?
Tackling Youth Unemployment
Date: 24/11/2009
Dermot Finch is chairing this one-day conference on youth unemployment in Birmingham.
Dermot Finch's speech to the Core Cities Summit 2009
Date: 03/11/2009
Dermot Finch outlined five major challenges for England's major cities and called for the next Government to set up another Urban Task Force in his speech to the 2009 Core Cities Summit.
Cities and the spending squeeze
Date: 21/10/2009
The debate about how the next government will reduce public spending has begun. Charles Clarke, Justine Greening & Jeremy Browne are on the panel for this question time event.
Northern Regeneration Summit
Date: 20/10/2009
Chris Webber gave an overview of the fiscal context for housing and regeneration over the next 5 years at the Northern Regeneration Summit.
Tomorrow's City Economies: where will the new jobs come from?
Date: 07/10/2009
The UK economy will look very different after this recession. But where will economic recovery come from? Centre for Cities will hold a Tomorrow's City Economies event at Lib Dem, Labour and Conservative party conferences, with the support of Openreach.
City Transport Question Time
Date: 05/10/2009
Centre for Cities, supported by Kapsch TrafficCom, are hosting debates at Labour and Conservative party conferences on the most pressing transport challenges facing policy-makers, city leaders and local businesses in Britain's cities today.
Regions Incorporated - Invitation Only
Date: 28/09/2009
This Centre for Cities / ICAEW business breakfast at Labour party conference will explore future directions for regional governance and how regional agencies can best support businesses from recession to recovery.
Urban Hub at Party Conferences 2009
Date: 20/09/2009
Urban Hub - the one-stop shop for city issues - is back at party conferences this autumn, bringing together Centre for Cities, the Core Cities Group, London Councils, The Work Foundation and the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Securing City & Regional Prosperity
Date: 21/07/2009
Dermot Finch will be joining Michael Ward of BURA and Jim O'Neill of Goldman Sachs to address where global economic policy is taking us.
Do Regions Matter?
Date: 15/07/2009
Adam Marshall will join a panel including Steve Broomhead and Lord Hanningfield to debate different perspectives and best practice in working with the new regional infrastructure.
From recession to recovery - the council role
Date: 13/07/2009
Dermot Finch will discuss the impact of the recession on the north at this one-day regional conference organised by the LGA
Economic development and transport: delivering during the recession
Date: 08/07/2009
Adam Marshall is speaking at this half day conference, exploring themes and policies initially discussed in the ‘On the Move' report (November 2008).
Developing your Economy through Regional and Sub-Regional Partnerships
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Date: 24/06/2009
Adam Marshall is among the speakers at this LGC/NLGN conference, presenting a look ahead to 2010 on the impact of politics on cities and city-regions.
Rally for real reform now
Date: 18/06/2009
It's clear that cities don't have the powers they need to respond to recession. Our biggest cities need directly elected mayors, with real tax and spend powers. Dermot Finch presented the case for elected mayors at this Progress event on constitutional reform.
Making Places: Shaping Lives
Date: 10/06/2009
Catherine Glossop will be presenting on the relationship between housing and the economy at this Northern Housing Consortium conference.
Maintaining Excellence In Local Government In The Economic Downturn
Date: 01/06/2009
Richard Woolhouse, Senior Economist, will address the question - Where can we hope to be in ten years time?
Elections question time
Date: 19/05/2009
Ahead of ‘Super Thursday' June 4th, we've brought together a cross-party panel to answer your questions on the most pressing issues affecting UK cities.
Best practice in transport
Date: 28/04/2009
Hannah Brown will be speaking on the topic of integrated transport at this one day conference in Leeds.
Taxing times for UK cities?
Date: 24/04/2009
A post Budget breakfast with Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, hosted by the City of London Corporation.
Global city forum 2009
Date: 07/04/2009
Dermot Finch has been invited to chair a session on the contribution of immigration to city success at this 2 day conference in Abu Dhabi.
Regeneration and Renewal's annual conference
Date: 31/03/2009
Dermot Finch and Adam Marshall are confirmed to speak at Regeneration & Renewal's annual conference in Birmingham.
Time for high speed rail?
Date: 25/03/2009
A one day conference featuring Lord Andrew Adonis, Minister of State for Transport, organised by Transport Times.
Cities: the secret of a winning destination
Date: 03/03/2009
Malcolm Cooper will join a panel with representatives from Liverpool and York to discuss how cities compete against their Capitals.
Dealing with economic downturn
Date: 26/02/2009
Malcolm Cooper, Centre for Cities' Head of Research will speak alongside Professor Michael Parkinson and Barbara Ridpath at a session on The Future for Financial Services and the City.
Using local powers to drive local economies
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Date: 25/02/2009
Dermot Finch, director of Centre for Cities, will be speaking on the topic of city-regions and economic devolution at this one-day conference.
Cities and regions exposure to the recession
Date: 20/02/2009
Malcolm Cooper will be closing this one-day conference with a challenging, forward looking presentation on how to best achieve and sustain long-term growth.
SocInvest09
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Date: 12/02/2009
Adam Marshall, Head of Policy, is taking part in a panel discussion on The future of regeneration funding at SocInvest09 in Manchester.
Cities Outlook launch reception
Date: 26/01/2009
Rt Hon James Purnell MP launched the 2009 edition of Cities Outlook at City Hall on 26 January.
