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The Mayor's Department provides a wide range of services.

Residents

The Residents' Office is responsible for registering, overseeing and managing personal data, the registration of changes in civil status as well as the organization of dignified funerals of deceased from various cultural backgrounds.

Cultural Affairs

The City of Zürich offers an extremely varied cultural program.

Urban Development

City and Neighborhood Development

With its analyses, strategies and neighborhood-specific projects, the Office for City and Neighborhood Development is actively involved in implementing the economically, socially and ecologically sustainable development of the city and its neighborhoods.

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The administration of the city excels in its role of modern service provider for residents, private individuals and companies alike.

Foreign Affairs

Cross-Cultural Issues

The City of Zürich's Office for Cross-Cultural Issues is responsible for and coordinates issues relating to integration and migration and is the first contact point for newcomers to the city.

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Gender Equality

The City of Zürich's Office for Gender Equality is responsible for equal opportunities.

Statistics Office

Zürich's Statistic Office collects and publishes statistical information from all areas of life including demographics, the economy, construction, residency and politics.

City Archives

Zürich's Archives Office looks after the archives of the City of Zürich.

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Creativity

A creative economy

Zurich is Switzerland's centre for media, design and art, and the success currently being enjoyed by the creative economy underline the city's great potential for innovation.

It is one of Zurich's long-standing traditions that creative people live and work in this cosmopolitan city. Dadaism flowered on the River Limmat and innumerable international authors worked here, including James Joyce, Thomas Mann and Elias Canetti.

An important economic factor

The creative sector today is an important economic factor, with a turnover of around 14 billion Swiss francs per year, and it has made Zurich into a city of trends. The sector employs some 33,000 persons, with roughly two thirds of them working in the software and games industry and in the architecture, design and press segments. A creative belt stretches from the lake along the Limmat to Zurich West, where the city pulses with vibrant life.

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