Opinion

Centralisation is killing our cities

By Malcolm Fraser, Malcolm Fraser Malcolm Fraser 2005-12-02T00:00:00

A decade and a half after a resurgent Barcelona used culture and urban vigour to fire-up the Catalan economy, Britain is still struggling to understand the truth it illuminated: that cities, and their regions, are our primary economic powerhouses.

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