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Learning from Cities— The 2nd Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation
The United States of America
□ River Bank of Boston
/ Boston / Youth Lead the Change: Participatory Budgeting Boston Boston’s mayor sought a way to
the city’s capital budget. Through this
empower the youth at the age of 12 to
participatory budgeting program, youth
25 to become active participants in civic
had the opportunity to collect ideas for
affairs. To this end, the City created
capital projects, distill those ideas into
the “Youth Lead the Change” program
concrete proposals, hold a city-wide vote
as part of the process for allocating
to determine which projects get funded,