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<p>Promoting public participation in urban processes has long been a critical issue in discussions about urban governance. However, despite the advantages of more progressive and inclusive city governance, participatory budgeting (PB) often faces challenges in ensuring collaboration between different stakeholders involved. Not always do the involved parties have adequate resources to lead the brainstormed ideas to a tangible project application. In recent decades universities are supporting partnerships, grassroots projects and media conversations to take an active part in the development of cities. In addition to the wish of making research results available to a wider public and increasing the chances of making use of them, universities are also interested in the co-production of knowledge with non-academic groups. This makes universities an important stakeholder with a potential of supporting community engagement processeses. Thus, through the analysis of participatory budgeting processes in the cities of the Eastern Baltic Sea region and a detailed case study of participatory budgeting in Riga, this research explores the limits of current PB programs, motivations and advantages of involving university in this process.</p>
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Promoting public participation in urban processes has long been a critical issue in discussions about urban governance. However, despite the advantages of more progressive and inclusive city governance, participatory budgeting (PB) often faces challenges in ensuring collaboration between different stakeholders involved. Not always do the involved parties have adequate resources to lead the brainstormed ideas to a tangible project application. In recent decades universities are supporting partnerships, grassroots projects and media conversations to take an active part in the development of cities. In addition to the wish of making research results available to a wider public and increasing the chances of making use of them, universities are also interested in the co-production of knowledge with non-academic groups. This makes universities an important stakeholder with a potential of supporting community engagement processeses. Thus, through the analysis of participatory budgeting processes in the cities of the Eastern Baltic Sea region and a detailed case study of participatory budgeting in Riga, this research explores the limits of current PB programs, motivations and advantages of involving university in this process.

University-Community Engagement: Formation of New Collaboration Patterns in Participatory Budgeting Process

Architecture and Urban Planning

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Promoting public participation in urban processes has long been a critical issue in discussions about urban governance. However, despite the advantages of more...

University-Community Engagement: Formation of New Collaboration Patterns in Participatory Budgeting Process

Published Online: Dec 24, 2022

Page range: 156 - 165

Received: Nov 02, 2022

Accepted: Dec 10, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/aup-2022-0016

Keywords
Participatory budgeting, university-community engagement, urban regeneration

© 2022 Sandra Treija et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

University-Community Engagement: Formation of New Collaboration Patterns in Participatory Budgeting Process

Published Online: Dec 24, 2022

Page range: 156 - 165

Received: Nov 02, 2022

Accepted: Dec 10, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/aup-2022-0016

KeywordsParticipatory budgeting, university-community engagement, urban regeneration

© 2022 Sandra Treija et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Participatory budgeting, university-community engagement, urban regeneration