<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Participatory budgeting has become a vital tool in making urban spatial planning more community oriented. Examination of how participatory budgeting has evolved is a pertinent subject in theoretical research and in practical applications. Projects proposed by local communities improve the quality of life in cities and enhance benefits offered by public spaces. The main goal of the paper is to present an overview and examine projects that transform public space, which have been implemented in selected Polish cities, namely in Katowice, Łódź, and Poznań within the framework of participatory budgeting exercise.</p><p>Our research has demonstrated that in many cases participatory budgeting has acted as a catalyst of a variety of local bottom-up initiatives addressing public space in researched cities. It is thanks to the engaged and creative people at the local level that new functions which improve the quality of life are developed in cities.</p></abstract>

Participatory budgeting has become a vital tool in making urban spatial planning more community oriented. Examination of how participatory budgeting has evolved is a pertinent subject in theoretical research and in practical applications. Projects proposed by local communities improve the quality of life in cities and enhance benefits offered by public spaces. The main goal of the paper is to present an overview and examine projects that transform public space, which have been implemented in selected Polish cities, namely in Katowice, Łódź, and Poznań within the framework of participatory budgeting exercise.Our research has demonstrated that in many cases participatory budgeting has acted as a catalyst of a variety of local bottom-up initiatives addressing public space in researched cities. It is thanks to the engaged and creative people at the local level that new functions which improve the quality of life are developed in cities.

”New” public urban space: citizens’ initiatives in participatory budgeting in Katowice, Łódź and Poznań

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Participatory budgeting has become a vital tool in making urban spatial planning more community oriented. Examination of how participatory budgeting has...

Category	Łódź		Katowice		Poznań		Total
Category	Z	R	Z	R	Z	R	Z	R
Green infrastructure	48	14	25	8	20	6	91	27
Blue infrastructure	3	0	3	3	7	3	13	6
Cycling infrastructure	24	7	10	6	11	4	50	18
Total	75	21	38	17	38	13	154	51

”New” public urban space: citizens’ initiatives in participatory budgeting in Katowice, Łódź and Poznań

Publié en ligne: 04 déc. 2018

Pages: 197 - 202

Reçu: 04 mars 2018

Accepté: 05 août 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgrsd-2018-0028

Mots clés
Public spaces, participatory budgeting, urban policy, local development, sustainable development

© 2018 Arnold Bernaciak, Agnieszka Rzeńca, Agnieszka Sobol published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

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Projects addressing “new” public spaces in cities included in the survey

”New” public urban space: citizens’ initiatives in participatory budgeting in Katowice, Łódź and Poznań

Publié en ligne: 04 déc. 2018

Pages: 197 - 202

Reçu: 04 mars 2018

Accepté: 05 août 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgrsd-2018-0028

Mots clésPublic spaces, participatory budgeting, urban policy, local development, sustainable development

© 2018 Arnold Bernaciak, Agnieszka Rzeńca, Agnieszka Sobol published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Figure 1

Figure 2

Figure 3

Projects addressing “new” public spaces in cities included in the survey

Mots clés
Public spaces, participatory budgeting, urban policy, local development, sustainable development