Leading Cities Rating
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Fosters the natural instinct cities have to collaborate and share best practices while achieving their ultimate goal of sustainability, resiliency, and equity.
“Resilient cities are those which have the ability to absorb, recover and prepare for future shocks (environmental, economic, social and institutional),” while they encourage sustainable development, prosperity, and comprehensive growth (OECD 2018).
These challenges are fundamental to defining the quality of life residents, workers and visitors will have in tomorrow’s cities as well as their usability experience.Smart Cities solutions enhance public management and help solve many of these urban challenges in a more efficient way.
A fundamental shift in how cities are measured, proving an ample incentive for cities to achieve the advancements that their constituents deserve.
Methodology
We use data science to analyze and score publicly available data and compare a city’s score with that of a “model city.”
This “model city” is determined using the best results already achieved by a city in each of the 32 indicators analyzed. These indicators are divided into 10 categories:
Rating System
Level-Up
Unlike a traditional ranking, the Leading Cities Rating system does not create a false sense of competition between cities, which results when one city must be forced to a lower ranking in order for another city to move up.
Smart Scale
The Leading Cities Rating, created in partnership with Bright Cities, uses a scale of A+ to F to score each indicator and each city overall.
Merit
We have created a rating system that does not include the inherent flaws of a traditional ranking—that no matter how good or bad the analyzed subjects are, the “number one” slot is always filled.