Budżet partycypacyjny jako wskaźnik aktywności społeczności lokalnych w przebudowie przestrzeni wybranych miast regionu świętokrzyskiego przed i w czasie pandemii COVID-19
The Participation Budget as an Indicator of Local Community Activity in the Reconstruction of Selected City Space in the Świętokrzyski Region Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Summary/Abstract: The research focus of this article is to present participatory budgeting as a modern tool for the reconstruction of urban space. It examines the benefits of this in small cities and observes its functioning before and during the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic. This article indicates that the cities of the Świętokrzyskie region in the years 2019-2020 are a subject of particular interest. The main hypothesis of this work assumes that the COVID-19 pandemic only exacerbated the attendance problem related to the involvement of the urban population in the participatory budget in Poland. The activity of local society in the reconstruction of urban space with the help of a participatory budget requires many years of work from local authorities. This helps them to expand their knowledge about its functioning and the benefits resulting from participation in its creation and implementation. The methodological foundation of this article is the analysis of methods of participatory budgeting used in Poland and the tools of interaction with society in order to disseminate them. The article also uses local data on the implementation of participatory budgets in the cities in the Świętokrzyskie region, both archival and that which is available as part of public statistics.

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