Our Mission
In the face of rapid urbanization, widespread economic volatility, and climate catastrophe, society needs new sustainable development models and resilience strategies to harness the full potential of the world’s principal motors of growth—cities. But a fragmented urban value chain has resulted in piecemeal and disjointed progress, leaving untapped the ability that cities have to drive efficiencies and respond with agility to overlapping challenges.
Goals and Objectives
This Coalition leverages and builds on the foundational work of the Bloomberg New Economy Cities Council for an action-oriented agenda that brings together a diverse set of stakeholders—from real estate developers, architects, and financiers to municipal officials and urban experts—to catalyze and design the path to progress in New Economy cities. By taking a holistic approach to urban development that is founded on clear metrics and data (e.g., from the Dynamic Cities Dashboard), we can optimize and drive capital toward solutions across the urban value chain, while taking into account the unique profile or archetype of a city.
Outcomes: The primary goals of the Coalition are to make actionable recommendations, develop IP and thought leadership, amplify content across influential global media, and directly influence business and government behavior and policy to accelerate the sustainable transition and transformation of cities. For instance, one KPI could focus on helping a select group of cities update building norms and regulation that allow for the use of recycled building materials.
Dynamic Cities Dashboard
As the future of the global economy increasingly shifts East and South, society needs a better lens to assess the world’s principal motors of growth — cities. Based on the principles of the Bloomberg New Economy Dynamic Cities Framework, published in 2021, the Dashboard evaluates, tracks, and aims to catalyze progress as booming metropoles strive to be Fair, Happy, Sustainable, Data-driven, Innovative, and Responsive hubs for talent and development.
The first iteration of the Dashboard focuses on 6 pillars, tracking and providing case studies around 18 metrics in 30 cities across 14 geographic regions, while defining 6 archetypes in order to make reasonable comparisons that will ultimately allow us to identify different paths to progress.
Case Studies
What does a favela in Sao Paulo, Brazil have in common with a neighborhood in Copenhagen, Denmark? Multi-dimensional whole-neighborhood transformations that take into account the social and physical infrastructure that supports a thriving community.
Learn how two Coalition member organizations, in very distinct parts of the world, are changing lives.
Case Studies
What we do is to transform an absolutely abandoned, poor, miserable area into a great laboratory for innovation and dignity.
— Edu Lyra, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Gerando Falcões
Coalition Members
Dynamic Cities Coalition members include the world’s leading architects, urban planners and developers, current and former mayors, innovators, social entrepreneurs, corporate representatives, financiers, and cities experts.