Bloomberg Cities: Stories From The Field

Mayors Challenge

Photo essay: When residents are co-creators, ideas get better

You’ve heard this before: City Hall’s best ideas are designed with residents, not for them. Residents, business owners, and other stakeholders helped to generate many of the breakthrough ideas these cities entered into the competition for a chance to win $1 million. 

equity budgeting
Budgeting & Equity

How city budgets can help equity as well as fiscal health

Amman, Jordan
Mayors Challenge

Photo essay: Civil servants grow as leaders in the Global Mayors Challenge

New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Government Performance

How New York City's next mayor can lead in public tech

Innovator of the Week

Stakeholders' voice is an important part of planning, says Montgomery official

Gary Sharp thought he had a strategy figured out on how to boost Black ownership of small businesses in Montgomery. But after he and his colleagues reached out to residents to learn more about what they needed, that strategy took quite a different turn.