Reclaiming the “Right to the City” Through Participatory Budgeting

Tyler James Olsen — 2019-02-19T06:00:00Z

Participatory budgeting is growing in many cities around the world. Can it become a tool for urban dwellers to reclaim power over their living conditions and the running of their city?
The crisis of legitimacy and the turn to the city
Facing the neoliberal retrenchment of the state that has been exasperated by the financial and economic troubles of the past 10 years, our representative democracies have been increasingly subject to a profound crisis of legitimacy. This, in turn, has led to

- Reviews / participation, political participation, participatory budgeting, right to the city, Lefebvre

Participatory Budgeting in New York City

Celina Su — 2014-12-01T05:50:00Z

Over the last four years, participatory budgeting has spread from one to more than 45 cities in the US. Reporting from New York City, Celina Su considers its promise for empowering the traditionally disenfranchised and identifies three suggestions for shoring up the process.
In 2011, at age 24, Corin Mills was not confident that he was capable of completing long-term projects, let alone attend college. He had dropped out of high school and served a brief jail sentence. Then, through an

- From the Field / participation, United States, New York, néolibéralisation, participatory budgeting, civic engagement, political participation, collaborative public management, deliberation

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Reclaiming the “Right to the City” Through Participatory Budgeting

Participatory Budgeting in New York City