Evidence from European cities shows emerging trends of shortterm local participatory practices focussed on the provision of practical support in different policy domains through online and on-the-field channels.
The outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic is the perfect storm that corroborates the magnitude of upcoming challenges for the future of democracy, cities, and citizen participation. The impacts of the covid-19 pandemic in cities, where more than half of the world population lives, offer a unique cross section to understand whether and to what extent participatory practices have been pushed forward.
Read the whole document, by Roberto Falanga (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung) here.
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