We are the largest community-based career platform for urbanists working on city challenges worldwide.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Peer networks

The Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance is identifying 100 mayors that are the most sophisticated, ambitious, and advanced at harnessing data and help them set a new standard for local governments committed to using data to power better results for residents.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Data science for social good
• Foundation initiatives

We are a platform of more than 140 thousand activists, organizations and groups that mobilize to transform behaviors and attitudes, generating influence in public policies and thus building a more tolerant, fair, sustainable, inclusive and participatory country.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Participatory democracy
• Advocacy tech
• Citizen Engagement

We break the silos of urbanist practices to build Black power and Black joy.

• racial equity
• city
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Design
• Urban planning
• Manifestos

In the municipal partnership program, ICLD offers local governments in a number of partner countries and Swedish municipalities and regions, the possibility to enter result oriented collaborations for exchange and peer learning.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Peer networks

Making cities stronger, fairer, and more resilient through responsible technology.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Emerging tech
• Research and policy centers
• Smart Cities and sensors

An open guide promoting participatory urban planning

• city
• guides
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Urban planning

The Initiative on Cities serves as a hub for urban related research and teaching across Boston University. We engage with urban leaders, policymakers, academics, and students from around the world to work toward sustainable, just, and inclusive urban transformation.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Tecnologies obertes, democràcia participativa i cultura digital

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Communicating with the people
• Hubs

The Environmental Justice Index (EJI) scores census tracts using a percentile ranking which represents the proportion of tracts that experience cumulative impacts of environmental burden and injustice equal to or lower than a tract of interest.

• Good health and well-being
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic maps

Modern administrative data—from 311 and 911 calls to building permit applications to Tweets—offer a detailed view of events and conditions across the city.

• census
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Narrative tech
• Urban planning

The Beirut Built Environment Database is a platform gathering geolocalised social, environmental, and economic information on building activity in the Greater Beirut Area.

• city
• landlord
• land

• Civic data
• Civic maps

Between March and September 2021, BUL researchers identified around 80 NGOs that participated in shelter repair within the neighborhoods severely affected by the August 2020 port blast. The data and findings are presented through a recent mapping output on the Beirut Urban Observatory.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps

NYC's first citywide Mayoral participatory budgeting process, run by the NYC Civic Engagement Commission (CEC) (2022-2023)

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Participatory budgeting

Supporting Indigenous land and data stewards for community centered science

• indigenous
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

@nycdatabot is a Twitter bot that lets you explore the city of New York through data.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Bots
• Open government data

Openly mapping for the pedestrian experience.

• place-based
• city
• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Mapping tools

The Opportunity Project for Cities puts open data to work. We bring together governments, community leaders, and tech volunteers to address local challenges through the power of open data and community engagement.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Incubators

The national voice of municipalities relating to information and communications technology.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Peer networks
• Trade groups

Refugees as City-Makers

• city
• refugees
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Community Lattice is a social enterprise that helps communities understand and optimize land revitalization programs, like EPA Brownfields, as a pathway to environmental and climate justice.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

The task force is creating multi-faceted policy and practice tools to inform, guide, and facilitate responsible data governance by cities and counties

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Data governance
• Working groups

On June 15, 2021, the Sacramento City Council approved the use of up to $1 million in Measure U funds for residents to propose ideas and vote on project concepts.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

자신이 주운 쓰레기 종류와 개수 데이터를 실시간으로 누적할 수 있으며, 플로깅을 마치면 GPS기반 소요시간/이동거리 등의 활동 정보가 ‘나의 쓰담기록’으로 저장됩니다. 어플 사용자 간 실시간 랭킹을 확인할 수 있음은 물론, 어플에 개설된 다양한 컨셉의 플로깅 프로그램에 참여할 수 있어 보다 흥미롭게 ‘지구쓰담’을 즐길 수 있습니다. (An app that lets you track your litter collection efforts)

• apps
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Crowdsourcing

by Okki Berendschot

• city
• Reduced inequalities
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Learn about civic tech
• Artistic interventions

The European Capital of Democracy Initiative will build a strong network of Cities that will foster participation; a platform for hope, and for exercising the will and power to change our world for the better.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Peer networks
• Awards and prizes

ACT NOW is an international programme run by The Innovation in Politics Institute, which supports local politicians in tackling the current challenges they face, such as migration flows, the climate crisis, and increasing social division resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Supporting public sector from outside government

ClearRoad provides cloud-based solutions to keep roads well-maintained and well-managed Schedule a demo

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Urban planning

LandOS facilitates project design, due diligence, finance and certification – all key to unlocking supply at scale.

• Climate action
• sustainability
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• 2020 Emerging Tech Projects

Our experienced and diverse team of advisors supports municipalities and organizations of all sizes across Canada on a range of data and tech issues. We work alongside our partners’ teams to assess their needs, define problems, mobilize research and knowledge, design solutions and support their implementation. Contact Us

• trainings
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Peer networks
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Community-owned internet infrastructure

• coop
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Connectivity
• Community wifi

With the Beta launch of the Angeleno Account, the City of Los Angeles is building the foundation for a common account to access your City apps.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Identity
• Official Digital Identity Systems

This page provides an overview of open source projects that are developed, commissioned or funded by public administrations in the state of Berlin

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic tech catalogs

An interactive reconstruction of the destruction of a thriving, Black-owned neighborhood that reconstructs a sense of place

• history
• city
• racial equity

• Media

With the onset of COVID, BARI has sought to construct a data-support system for a city during a pandemic–both to serve our local communities and to act as a model for others across the country.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Surveys & polling
• COVID Engagement Projects
• COVID Data Projects

A Field Guide to the Dark Ecologies of Newtown Creek is designed in phases that we are developing over time.

• local
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artistic interventions

OneCity allows developers and businesses to identify, evaluate and compare investment opportunities that align with official spatial strategies.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Mapping tools
• Urban planning

The cities in this Atlas represent the vanguard of urban governments that are hosting tests, developing their own autonomous vehicle (AV) pilots, making plans and policy, and monitoring developments in AV technologies, uses, and markets.

• mobility
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Emerging tech
• Hardware
• Automated Vehicles

Archive of New York City directories

• city
• libraries
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Predecessors

Africa’s first investigative environmental journalism unit, which combines traditional investigative reporting with data analysis and geo-mapping to expose offenses and track crime syndicates

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Investigative journalism tech

How to increase public engagement in environmental issues is a central question in environmental communication and environmental psychology literatures.

• research
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

FastFWD is a partnership among The City of Philadelphia, GoodCompany Group, a social enterprise accelerator, and the Wharton Social Impact Initiative.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Accelerators

The leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• News and blogs

Documenting the use of defensive urban design in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond.

• city
• place-based
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Archives
• Artistic interventions

A Sustainable Internet for All

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Climate action

• News and blogs

Urban AI is a Think Tank that proposes ethical modes of governance and sustainable uses of urban AI.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers

The 2021 Global Mayors Challenge is the farthest reaching, most ambitious to date

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Get funding
• Challenges

An intelligent urban measurement project that’s changing our understanding of cities and urban life. The Array of Things (AoT) is a collaborative effort among scientists, universities, federal and local government, industry partners, and communities to collect real-time data on urban environment, infrastructure, and activity for research and public use

• air quality
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors

After the installation, users can decide which messages they want to receive

• apps
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Issue reporting

The New York Times's interactive on what belongs in the trash and what gets recycled

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Media
• Games and gamification
• Solutions journalism