Collaborative Cities : ESRI Press : 9781589485396 : 1589485394 : 24 Feb 2022 : Dynamic problems require dynamic collaboration and technology. Our communities today face difficult issues?such as climate change, access to health care, and homelessness?which are tangled, complicated, and constantly evolving. Coined ?wicked problems? more than 40 years ago by the University of California's professors Horst Rittel and C. West Churchman, these issues exceed the capacity of any one sector, instead demanding the kind of creative thinking, democratized engagement, and integrated action that come from government, nonprofits, businesses, and citizens working in concert. These different stakeholders, however, don't always agree on the best approach, strategy, or goals. But their commonality in driving social outcomes relies on place: where problems are happening, where people need assistance and help defining the issues. Maps combine complex and relational information that can be visualized and