Through research on nonprofits and the communities they serve, the Civic Life of Cities Lab brings together scholars from around the world to understand the organizational building blocks of a vibrant civil society.
In this SSIR article,Christof discusses how cities, as ecosystems of networked organizations, provide the necessary scale, reach, and resources to bridge the gap between small experiments and big problems.
Christof is currently an assistant professor at Emlyon Business School in France. His upcoming talk is titled “The Civic Life of Cities: Professional Expertise and the Organizational Production of Urban Integration”. The talk will draw on the San Francisco dataand CLC’s recent work on global comparisons of civil society organizations to examine the organizational production of urban integration.