Community Urbanism
The Community Urbanism Project, developed by the Alto Perú civil association, seeks to address the challenges of urban youth living in marginalized communities in Lima: the lack of development opportunities, the breakdown of community ties and the lack of social cohesion. These problems are sought to be solved through innovations in urban infrastructure, since improving the quality of these neighborhoods is expected to strengthen the social fabric. The Community Urbanism Project seeks to achieve these goals through the recovery of public spaces to make use of existing resources in the community. The project has achieved, for example, the recovery of local parks, the construction of community libraries and the recovery of the historical site of Morro Sol.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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