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Protection against real and perceived threats to the security of a city is important for social stability. Giving priority to management and efforts to eradicate several behaviours such as criminality, violence, substance abuse, infection, natural disasters, terrorism, cybercrime and personal security will instill confidence in leadership and allow for individuals to thrive.

The word ‘energy’ travels in a lot of places. We consume it, produce it, move it, store it and interact with energy all the time but it remains something of an abstraction.

t seems to be human nature to place greater confidence in anything that is bigger. When it comes to cities, a handful of the largest cities in the world receive significant amounts of attention while smaller cities carry on their work in the relative shadows.

The CitiIQ measurement system, providing quarterly scores for the 35 most important Considerations of a city, now includes a reporting feature indicating if a city is gaining or losing ground on the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Advancing SDGs at a city level is crucial to achieving the UN’s Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development….

The provision of basic education represents an opportunity in a city to establish knowledge-based institutional patterns that support a host of other essentials. Learning and training is a means by which cities can create a depth of talent needed for their own function and for competitive advantage nationally and globally.

Within the CitiIQ scoring system, Public Health is one of the most intricately woven themes – what we call Considerations. There is a good reason for this: health across a population reflects many things working in a consistent and coordinated fashion.

Over the last 13+ months communities around the world have been asked to endure a range of difficult measures to stem the spread of the Covid-19, including limiting physical interactions….

Early in the pandemic, UN-Habitat, a United Nations Agency, commissioned a global city COVID-19 tracking site available to anyone in the world. Monitoring over 1,600 cities, the data clearly displays the 14-day trends by city….

Cities and communities have higher order characteristics that go beyond the individual elements or characteristics that make them up.

The intangible aspects of a city or community – how it makes people feel, whether we like or avoid a place – may seem less important than all the systems that are necessary to support life for thousands or millions of people.

Human beings can survive under remarkably difficult circumstances. In August 2010, 33 Chilean miners where trapped in a mine collapse nearly a kilometer underground and lived in their small chamber for 69 days.

Cities that provide significant benefits for their citizens are characterized by many competing but complimentary tensions. One of those tensions is the need for both stability and change – stability to capture known value for the city and disruption to introduce new possibilities for growth.