{"id":11694,"date":"2015-04-07T12:11:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T10:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisabaur.com\/berlin\/?p=11694"},"modified":"2015-06-03T13:59:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T11:59:19","slug":"berlin-capital-of-participatory-urban-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makecity.berlin\/en\/11694\/berlin-capital-of-participatory-urban-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin &#8211; Capital of Participatory Urban Development?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enthusiastic inhabitants of former squats inhabitants, keen urban gardeners and prolific petitioners: over the course of decades, residents of Berlin have turned the city into a hub of civic activism, self-led initiatives and bottom-up urban development. Berlin&#8217;s political institutions, however, are at times ambivalent in their attitude towards citizens&#8217; demands for greater participation. Take for example the fact that Berlin&#8217;s Minister for Urban Development recently revoked Berlin-Mitte District&#8217;s planning authority for the Mauerpark area, stating &#8220;We&#8217;ve been elected to govern &#8211; and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re going to do now.&#8221; In a panel &#8211; which includes Berlin policy-makers &#8211; time to ask them and others the question: where next for Berlin\u2019s unique culture of participation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Enthusiastic inhabitants of former squats inhabitants, keen urban gardeners and prolific petitioners: over the course [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":13810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hub"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecity.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecity.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecity.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecity.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecity.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11694"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/makecity.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15782,"href":"https:\/\/makecity.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11694\/revisions\/15782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecity.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecity.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecity.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecity.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}