The 2022 ICMA Annual Conference will take place September 17-21 in Columbus/Franklin County, Ohio.

A crowd-sourced poem from those in local government about the communities we aspire to have.

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Perspectives from ICMA's affiliates in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Kenya, Netherlands, Denmark, Canada, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, and ICMA China Center and ICMA México-Latinoamérica.

In Japan, local governments have a duty to exercise a measure of independence from the national government regarding the manner in which they operate.

Here are examples of brownfields redevelopment from around the globe and ICMA’s leadership in the brownfields movement.

An overview of local government structure in the United States

Local governments, along with their community members and artists, can use art and cultural activities to renovate and reconstruct public spaces.