Aktywność obywatelska a zaspokajanie potrzeb w miejskim systemie konsumpcji w świetle budżetów partycypacyjnych. Przykład Wrocławia
Civic Engagement and Meeting Needs in the Urban Consumption System in the Context of Participatory Budgets. Case of Wrocław

Summary/Abstract: The article aims at analyzing the potential of civic engagement oriented towards improving the quality of life in local communities which unfolds in the course of proceeding with participatory budget in Wrocław. Civic engagement is understood as a manifestation of the rule of inhabitants’ participation, that is their engagement in the process of defining needs, expressing interests and mobilizing resources in local communities in order to meet those needs. Creating the quality of life in local community is defined as an opportunity to satisfy the needs in the public sphere of the city. Despite the weaknesses of the participatory budgets outlined in the article, this procedures have become an interesting lab of civic engagement. For the use of the article, participatory budgets also epitomize the main slogan of the volume „City under construction” since the result of the participatory budgets is the evolution of the spatial form of the city as well as the urban social space, which is made up of intersecting interests of various social groups. The empirical basis for the article is data obtained from Social Diagnosis of Wrocław describing civic engagement of inhabitants. The other source of materials used for secondary data analysis are official documents from the department managing participatory budget on behalf of City Council in Wrocław.

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