PLN – 12
10/2014
Public Space and Citizenship

Organizing partners

Porto Alegre
CGLU

Hosting city

Porto Alegre, Brazil

Good practices

  • Case studies demonstrating the use and management of public spaces initiatives: Bogota, Colombia: recovering and rehabilitating spaces with parks, roads, and an inclusion criterion.; Santa Fe: Argentina: Strategic Provincial Plan and the Basic Plan creating participatory urban development processes; Guarulhos, Brazil: inclusion policies and maintenance of public space 
  • Participatory Budget generated awareness and trust by the public in public management. 
  • UCLG developing a guideline to assist with public space planning and targetting local government practitioners.