Pocket squares (Plazas de Bolsillo)
Pocket Squares (Span. Plazas de bolsillo) is an initiative of the Inter-American Development Bank, in partnership with the Government of the Metropolitan Region of Santiago and the Ministry of Public Works. The purpose of the initiative is to create squares and sport facilities on unused or abandoned lots, which can be easily dismantled as soon as the premises have to be used for another purpose. The design of the city squares is conducted following a participatory approach, which involves meetings among the residents and the organizers, in which the community's demands are discussed, alternatives are proposed and selected, and lastly the final proposal is approved.
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
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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