It Takes a City

Our friends Flavio and Stefania have brought together stories of participation and democracy from across four continents. In this episode, they interview the pioneering Portuguese politician Graça Fonseca about her time as Deputy Mayor of Lisbon - and about that city’s participatory budget, which every years sees millions of euros directly allocated to citizen ideas by citizen vote. Chapters (00:00:01) - It Takes a City: The Participatory Budget(00:01:23) - The Lisbon deputy mayor on participatory budgeting(00:08:10) - The participatory election in Lisbon(00:12:34) - How did the population that was participating in the budgeting change?(00:14:12) - Participatory Budget(00:19:48) - Portugal's participatory budget(00:22:58) - Natasha Grasse on Participatory Budgeting