Listen back to the State of the City debate in Newcastle, convened by the leader of the city council Nick Forbes and featuring contributions from:
Pat Ritchie, Chief Executive, Newcastle City Council
Prof John Tomaney, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning in the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London
Alexandra Jones, Chief Executive, Centre for Cities
Peter Hetherington (Chair), former reporter for both The Guardian and The Journal

The event was recorded on 29 July 2014 in Newcastle

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We talked to the Director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program about the implications of his new book The Metropolitan Revolution, which charts urban dynamism in the United States. In a conversation with Alexandra Jones, Chief Executive of Centre for Cities, Bruce Katz discusses how cities need to assess their advantages based on evidence, and ‘collaborate to compete’. Also discussed is the necessity of devolving greater powers to cities, as policy made in the centre tends to be bureaucratic and compartmentalised.

For more on the Metropolitan Revolution, visit the website: metrorevolution.org

Bruce Katz: cities need to be the best twenty-first century version of themselves

Listen back to the final Think Cities Debate on schools, hospitals and bin men – would more people win if we had more of a public services “postcode lottery”?

Going head to head we have Claudia Wood from Demos, Sean Worth from Policy Exchange and Paul Buddery from the Commission on 2020 Public Services.

Watch the debate on youtube: http://youtu.be/YhAwyYpKKkQ

Think Cities Debates: Public Services

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