Cities of Peace · A holistic city assessment
The City Assessment brings public evidence, Christian engagement, and civic narratives into one shared framework—applied consistently across 60 connected domains of city life.
The three dimensions
Each dimension examines the same city from a different vantage point. Together they show conditions, engagement, and meaning—the measurable city, the active city, and the storied city.
City health · Public data
Public evidence is mined and compiled for every domain. Each domain receives an evidence-weighted grade, contributing to an overall city grade that can be compared with peer cities.
Christian engagement · Ethnographic survey
Leaders from the church, business, and nonprofit worlds assess Christian engagement in every domain through four lenses: presence, mission, justice, and collaboration.
Narrative catalogue · Content analysis
The stories of culture makers and trusted leaders reveal how a city remembers its past, interprets its present, and imagines its future—meaning that statistics alone cannot show.
The 60-domain methodology
The framework begins with four pathways of human development and flourishing. Each pathway is examined through fifteen systems that shape civic life. Every intersection creates one domain.
The 15 city systems
These systems are applied to all four pathways, producing a consistent structure for comparison and synthesis.
How the assessment works
Dimension One establishes the public-data baseline. Dimension Two adds the lived perspective and activity of Christian leaders. Dimension Three gathers the narratives that shape identity, memory, conflict, and hope.
The result is not three separate reports, but one integrated city assessment: a stronger basis for discernment, strategy, collaboration, and shared action.
From framework to action
Use one common matrix of 60 connected domains.
Collect evidence, engagement data, and narratives.
Find grades, gaps, patterns, and repeated themes.
Form one integrated City Assessment for shared action.
The original white paper
Cities of Peace: A Proposal for a Holistic City Assessment Matrixexplains the ideas, questions, and theological vision that led to the three-dimensional framework and its 60 connected domains.
Begin the City Assessment
Each tool stands on its own. Their greatest value emerges when the three dimensions are read across the same 60 domains.