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Championing creativity in all its forms

Jacob Urup Nielsen explains how a British Council project has investigated the different ways in which cities can tap into their creative side

‘Reverse graffiti’ by Moose in Aarhus, Denmark.

Over the past four years the British Council’s Creative Cities project has reached 250,000 people directly in 15 countries across Europe. One of its main aims has been to harness the creativity which exists in cities everywhere to the greater good of the city as a whole.

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Voodoo economic development part II

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Beyond the housing market crisis

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Time to widen our horizons on energy policy?

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Cash in hand

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Putting the local into LEPs

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Halfway to the holy grail?

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Voodoo economic development

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The mirages served up by reforms shouldn’t deflect us from viewing localism as the answer

The coalition government is absolutely right to strive for localism. It’s just a shame it’s so out of touch with the way its reforms are playing out on the ground, says David Boyle

Open Public Services was a strange business. The rhetoric was spot on: choice, decentralisation, fairness, diversity, accountability – not so much the Five Giants that Beveridge warned us about, but the Five Mirages that never quite appear.

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After a century of tackling poverty one thing’s for sure: government must play a key role

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Reconciling communities through regeneration

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Love Your Streets

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A bad marriage

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The power of language to tell the story of place

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Coming out of the shadows

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Growth is as much about an area’s social capital as it is its local economy