Neal Peirce, a longtime Partners board member and frequent emcee at the Honors awards ceremony launched Citiscope on Monday. Citicope is an independent, nonprofit media organization founded on the idea that cities from around the world have a lot to learn from each other. Citiscope will seek out innovations in cities around the world and spread the word through quality journalism to the "architects" of the future: mayors, councils, city staffs, and cities' business, civic and neighborhood groups. Citiscope will commission local journalists to tell the stories with the keen local context that only a local can provide.

Citiscope has identified eight primary categories for its reporting:

• Economy
• Mobility
• Place
• Inclusivity
• Environment
• Resilience
• Governance
• Technology
  

Every Monday, Citiscope will be updated with weekly innovation stories from cities around the world. Another component of Citiscope.org is CitiSignals, which is a curated collection of leading news, trends, and reports on cities. You can subscribe to Citiscope's weekly email newsletter at http://citiscope.org/subscribe to be keep abreast of new weekly feature articles and updates from CitiSignals.