About Us

City Reputation Reports (CRR) is an independent research project focused on auditing global urban digital narratives. In the AI-driven information age, city image is no longer determined solely by official propaganda, but is widely defined, reconstructed, and distributed by global algorithmic models.

Our mission is to serve as a "digital civilization observation post", objectively recording, observing, and auditing the reputation performance of major global cities in mainstream artificial intelligence (AI) and digital information environments. We are committed to revealing the narrative structures behind algorithms through evidence-driven methods, providing decision-making references for city governors, cultural researchers, and communication institutions.

CRR's observation scope focuses on five core dimensions of urban soft power:

• Food narratives: Auditing the accuracy and influence of a city's taste名片 in digital space.
• Heritage and tradition: Observing the survival status and narrative depth of historical accumulation in modern algorithms.
• Visual landmarks: Identifying how urban physical landscapes are transformed into global digital symbols.
• Festivals and rhythms: Evaluating the presentation intensity of urban vitality in digital records.
• Arts and creativity: Auditing the narrative labels of urban modernity and humanistic innovation capabilities.

To ensure the objectivity and fairness of audit results, CRR adheres to the stance of independent research.

• Academic isolation: We choose to operate as an anonymous distributed research group, aiming to exclude interference from geopolitical, commercial, or personal biases, letting the evidence speak for itself.
• Non-evaluative observation: We do not score or rank cities, serving only as archivists and analysts of digital narratives, ensuring data authenticity through immutable evidence links.

In addition to regularly published public observation reports, CRR provides the following professional support based on its rigorous methodological system:

• Specialized narrative audit: Conducting multi-platform, in-depth specialized digital reputation audits for specific urban assets, single landmarks, or specific cultural projects.
• Narrative governance recommendations: Based on information gaps, narrative biases, or outdated data discovered during audits, providing professional consulting advice on digital narrative optimization and information governance for relevant institutions.
• Global comparative analysis: Providing multi-dimensional comparative audits in specific fields (such as "Global Food Capitals") from an AI perspective, helping to understand cities' real positions in global digital competition.

We welcome in-depth exchanges with academia, urban governance institutions, and international communication experts.

• Research inquiries: research@cityreputationreports.org (for methodological discussions and academic citation guidelines)
• Custom audit applications: audits@cityreputationreports.org (for specialized reports, governance recommendations, or customized research needs)
• Briefing subscription: briefing@cityreputationreports.org (subscribe to global urban narrative audit highlights)