The Atlas for Cities Information

The Atlas envisions a world with cities that are safer, smarter and more sustainable because cities have quick, easy access to all of the solutions and partners they need to solve their toughest problems – problems like citizen engagement, climate change, and mobility. The Atlas is an online community that helps city, county and utility officials do three things: 1) Share their success stories 2) Learn about what’s working elsewhere and 3) Build relationships with the partners they need to jumpstart progress. The goal is to help city officials apply what’s working elsewhere in their own communities – whether that’s a specific technology approach, design innovation, financing mechanism, public-private partnership arrangement or procurement method. Access to The Atlas is free for local governments. In the short years since its founding in 2016, The Atlas has become an online community of hundreds of engaged local government officials and staff. The Atlas helps 1,000+ city officials each month find creative solutions to urban problems that have been proven in other communities around the world and has facilitated more than 3,000 new relationships to help cities jumpstart progress on the ground. The Atlas is proud to call the City of San Diego home. It was founded by three women under 35, two of whom are military spouses and all of whom are former government officials/staff themselves. Check it out!