Spotlight poll: Pandemic response to post-Covid recovery – the view from local government
Ahead of local elections next month, Spotlight polled councillors across the country on Covid-19, economic recovery and party politics.
Economy / Economic development
Economic development
How Covid-19 sparked the great luxury real estate shuffle
Many prime real estate markets in the West saw a boom due to people’s rapidly changing priorities.
Changing the lives of refugees through fashion design
By providing training and support, a new municipal project in Paris is aimed at giving refugees a first job and a second chance.
In the UK, the pandemic is making it harder to tackle geographic inequality
Government efforts to "level up" England's north and Midlands regions will now be four times more difficult, according to a new report.
Biden’s broadband plan comes at a pivotal moment for the digital divide
The president has called for universal broadband access in the US. There's still a long way to go, and the government's own data understates inequities in internet infrastructure.
White Papers
Partner content
Inside Tulsa’s forward-thinking talent attraction game
As work-from-home becomes the norm, remote workers are flocking to smaller US cities that aim to attract people rather than entire companies.
Everyone wants to save local businesses, but what about chains?
Even before Covid, small businesses were closing in many cities. Some communities are now debating whether to put limits on chain stores.
Will anyone want to host the next Olympics?
Over and over again, the conflicts between the short-term needs of mega-events and the long-term needs of the cities that host them result in the cities losing out.
What the pandemic means for NYC’s controversial waterfront rezonings
Developers of projects throughout the city have clashed with neighbourhood activists who fear that rezoning will exacerbate gentrification trends already under way.
The loss of conferences and conventions is dealing a blow to North American cities
In normal years, the events industry pumps millions of dollars into local economies. Now empty hotels and convention centres are an epicentre for lost jobs and revenue.
A Singaporean firm has become the go-to master planner for African cities
Surbana Jurong has signed contracts to do city master plans in ten African countries. Why is the continent relying on outside firms to map its future?
Capitals are increasingly at risk. Are backup cities the answer?
A Philippines city prepared for natural-disaster-prone Manila aims to succeed where Japan has failed.
In the Covid era, the relationship between cities and megadevelopments makes even less sense
In this environment, large-scale projects like Sidewalk Labs’ Waterfront Toronto appear increasingly untenable.
