Cities face immense challenges but hold extraordinary potential for transformation. The Future of Cities: A Data-Driven Approach to Tackling Grand Challenges and Building Sustainable, Resilient Communities explores how place leaders - mayors, urban visionaries, and catalysts - can harness data and citizen science to address critical issues and create thriving urban communities.

Key insights include:

• Leveraging data-driven decision-making to tackle challenges linked to sustainability, water, the environment, public transportation, health, education, poverty and safety.
• Real-world examples and actionable steps for building equitable, resilient cities.
• Citizen science as a tool to ignite collaboration and collective intelligence in urban planning.