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UNLEASHING THE POTENTIAL OF THE UK’S CITIES - Case studies - SEPTEMBER 2023

4 Oct 2023

The importance period and seeks to address the evolving Partnerships have been fortified, leveraging arising from the pandemic and climate of robust partnerships and cross-sectoral challenges posed by the global pandemic, the strengths of statutory agencies and crisis. [...] Financing and challenges The BRCD’s financial foundation is substantial, Context and ambitions with commitments of £350m each from The BRCD is a response to the need for the UK government and the Northern inclusive economic growth in the Belfast Ireland Executive, alongside £150m from region. [...] The council has The council and its partners aim to agreed a spatial plan, but unless it is selling become the ‘best city’, by tackling poverty a site, it doesn’t choose the developers: and inequality, promoting health and the developers choose the city. [...] This shift in fortunes for local people resulted in tensions In the 1970s and 1980s, the US between the old, traditional industries experienced the beginning of the decline and the new technology companies. [...] In the years and decades that the incentives offered to MCC by the city followed, the tech sector boomed in government and business communities, Austin, with the impacts of the strategy still including subsidised office space, relocation clear to see today, showcasing the benefits expenses, and low-interest loans, in a of taking an ambitious approach to long- package totalling over $60m.
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