Global City Indicators Facility

Professor Patricia L. McCarney, Director University of Toronto

Smart Cities for All World Bank, Washington DC March 5, 2012

Pilot Cities

Belo Horizonte, Brazil Bogota, Colombia Cali, Colombia King County, Washington State, USA Montreal, Canada Toronto, Canada Vancouver, Canada Porto Alegre, Brazil Sao Paulo, Brazil

Total of 1100 indicators across 9 pilot cities only 2 comparable

GCIF Membership

168 Member Cities Worldwide and Growing.

GCIF Membership

GCIF Membership Growth

61 Nations Represented
Afghanistan Argentina Australia Bahrain Bangladesh Brazil Cambodia Canada Central African Republic Chad Chile Colombia Democratic Republic of the Congo Dominican Republic El Salvador Ecuador Finland France Ghana Guinea Bissau India Indonesia Iran Iraq Italy Israel Jordan Kenya Latvia Liberia Lithuania Madagascar Mali Mexico Mongolia Morocco Mozambique Nepal Netherlands Nigeria Peru Philippines Portugal Romania Saudi Arabia Seychelles South Africa Spain Sri Lanka Tanzania Trinidad & Tobago UAE United Kingdom United States Uruguay Ukraine Venezuela Vietnam

17 Cities
2009, 1st Quarter

168 Cities
2012, 1st Quarter

Global City Indicators

Structured around themes organized into two broad categories :

City Services

Quality of Life

City Services

Education Finance Governance Recreation Transportation Wastewater Energy

Fire and Emergency Services Health Safety Solid waste Urban Planning Water

Quality of Life

Civic Engagement Economy Shelter Culture

Environment Social Equity Technology and Innovation

GCIF Board of Directors - Members

9 Cities
AMMAN DURBAN KING COUNTY MILAN SO PAULO TORONTO + + +

9 Organizations

UN HABITAT ICLEI WORLD BANK UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO IDRC OECD UNEP Government of Ontario Government of Canada

GCIF Advisory Board - Members

Alan Broadbent - Nefise Bazoglu - Jeb Brugmann - Tim Campbell - Mila Freire Giles Gherson Daniel Hoornweg - Michel Lamoureux Patrick Luciani - Om Mathur Ali Shabou - Riadh Tappuni Lorne Turner

Partnerships

International Partners

Global Private Partners

Cisco IBI Group Philips GDF Suez Baida Finance Group

Cities Alliance The Executive Council, Dubai World Bank OECD IDRC UN-Habitat ICLEI UNESCO UNEP U.S. (HUD) Inter-American Devt Bank White House Urban Affairs CAI Asia; Polis Milan Maytree Foundation

NEW:

International Corporate Advisory Board (ICAB)

City Partnerships 168 Cities

North America -- 27 Mayors Europe -- 19 Mayors Asia -- 51 Mayors Africa -- 21 Mayors Latin America -- 30 Mayors Middle East -- 17 Mayors Oceania -- 3 Mayors

GCIF

Current Reporting..

GCIF Forthcoming Reports

12 Policy Snapshots

WHY CITIES? WHY METRICS?

IN 2008 THE WORLDS 100 LARGEST CITIES CONTRIBUTED 30 PERCENT OF GLOBAL GDP

PRODUCTIVE CITIES

Source: GCIF 2011

GCIF INDICATORS REVEAL THAT CITIES CONTRIBUTE MORE GDP TO THEIR NATIONAL ECONOMY THAN THE RELATIVE SIZE OF THEIR POPULATION SUGGESTS

PART 2

GLOBAL CITIES GLOBAL CHALLENGES

PART 3 A NEED FOR INDICATORS UNTANGLING THE WEB

PART 4 CITIES & PROSPERITY A DISTINCT ROLE FOR CITIE

PART 5A CITY ATTRIBUTES AND CITY ASSETS

POSE THE QUESTION:

WHY DO PEOPLE COME TO OUR CITY, AND WHY DO THEY LEAVE?

PART 5B

CITIES AS LOGISTICS PLATFORMS

POSE THE QUESTION: HOW CAN GCIF METRICS INFORM POLICY FOR CITIES IN BUILDING OUT THESE LOGISTICS PLATFORMS

PART 6 GOVERNANCE INCLUSIVE CITIES INSTITUTIONS

PROGRAMMING
Research
Three-way Research Partnership (2012-2014) U of T Global Cities MIT Planning Harvard GSD on Global Cities - Risk and Resilience Building Resilient Cities: Planning, Management and Governance Global Cities, Global Prosperity Nations, Cities and the Global Economy Comparative Learning and EvidenceBased Policy through City Indicators; Cities and Sustainable Infrastructure Cities and Global Connectivity Cities, Inclusiveness and the Public Realm MArch MLA MUD PhD MCP

Education
Degrees

Outreach
Public Lectures Global Conversations Global City Summits

Global City Design Studios Global City Research Studios ISO Performance Management City Management Executive Certification and Training Courses

Regional Roundtables Africa (year 1 - Durban) Middle East (year 1 Amman) Europe (year 2 - Paris) North America (year 2 - San Antonio) Asia (year 2 - Mumbai) Latin America (year 3 - Sao Paulo)
Global Media CNN Partnership

CONTACT US

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