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id: "govlab:project/project-city-challenges"
type: "GovLab project"
title: "City Challenges"
url: "https://thegovlab.org/project/project-city-challenges"
authors: ["Beth Simone Noveck","Gabriella Capone","Victoria Alsina","Sam DeJohn"]
summary: "City Challenges is a process to help cities and their communities collaborate to develop innovative and implementable solutions to pressing urban problems."
source: "The GovLab (thegovlab.org)"
licence: "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)"
---

# City Challenges

City Challenges is a process to help cities and their communities collaborate to develop innovative and implementable solutions to pressing urban problems.

Project website: [https://desafios.sanpedro.gob.mx](https://desafios.sanpedro.gob.mx)

## Background

As the [most urbanized](https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?page=view&type=400&nr=746&menu=1515) region of the planet, Latin American cities are growing rapidly – too rapidly to ensure effective problem-solving of the increasingly complex problems they are facing.

## Description

During our first pilot in Monterrey, we focused on solving four problems: environment and reducing pollution; government efficiency and services; mobility and transportation; and public spaces and participation.

## Location

- Global

## Partners

- Tinker Foundation

## Team

- [Beth Simone Noveck](https://thegovlab.org/team.html#beth-simone-noveck)
- [Gabriella Capone](https://thegovlab.org/team.html#gabriella-capone)
- [Victoria Alsina](https://thegovlab.org/team.html#victoria-alsina)
- [Sam DeJohn](https://thegovlab.org/team.html#sam-dejohn)

## Additional resources

- [City Challenges: Collaborative Governing for Public Problem Solving](https://www.forbes.com/sites/bethsimonenoveck/2018/01/24/city-challenges-collaborative-governing-for-public-problem-solving/)