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Methodology

City Intelligence Methodology

How Global City Intelligence scores affordability, air quality, energy readiness, and resilience with transparent source-backed logic.

Last updated
2026-05-03
Data year
2025
Scoring scale
0 to 100
Rendering
Server-rendered HTML

Scoring model

Scores are intentionally practical: a city is healthier to live in when access, exposure, affordability, and resilience work together.

Methodology weights table
MetricValueContext
Affordability25%Housing pressure, daily essentials, transport dependency, and service access.
Air quality25%Health-oriented interpretation of PM2.5, PM10, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, and monitoring confidence.
Energy readiness25%Clean-energy transition capacity, grid resilience, climate stress, and renewable-resource context.
Urban resilience25%Climate adaptation, institutional capacity, infrastructure reliability, and daily-life continuity.

Explanation

The platform avoids thin generated pages by pairing each score with visible context, tables, source blocks, and internal links. Scores are useful only when users can understand what is being rewarded, what is being penalized, and which data category drives the interpretation.

The mock data is production-shaped. Each city, module, ranking, and source is typed so future ingestion can replace static values while preserving crawlable pages and unique metadata.

Sources

These pages use trusted institutional references for methodology and context. Mock values are typed and ready to be replaced by API-backed city datasets without changing route structure.