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3 Ways Cross-Departmental Alignment Can Improve Public Health in Your City

NLC (National League of Cities)

From public works and sanitation to economic development and community engagement, the role that city governments play in serving their local communities is complex and multifaceted. When the work is this widespread, communicating across teams can be confusing and time-consuming, and its easy to slip into silos.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part One | Defining Levels of Service for individual parks

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

For either a BID or a conservancy extra services are likely to include security, sanitation, capital improvements, and marketing and economic development activities. and they collect special monies to pay for it. Conservancies and BIDs as special service districts.

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7 Ways Faith Organizations Are Making Cities More Sustainable and Equitable

The City Fix

About two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050. While cities are hubs of innovation and opportunity, the increasing pace of urbanization also exacerbates inequality, stresses infrastructure, and fuels climate change, air pollution and other environmental problems.