Hosted by Stefánia Kapronczay and Flavio Proietti Pantosti · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 10 episodes
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It Takes a City is a podcast about participation and democracy. We believe that greater participation is key to making democracy work and to making people feel better about it. Through conversations with practitioners, we explore stories from communities with limited resources, where people are trying to reach beyond the usual voices, tackle difficult challenges, and sometimes fail along the way.We are Stefania Kapronczay and Flavio Proietti Pantosti, find us at https://takesacity.com/.
Stefánia Kapronczay and Flavio Proietti Pantosti hosts It Takes A City, a government show with 10 episodes published.
In Episode 9, the final episode of the season, we take a step back. With our two guests, we look at the bigger picture: could participatory programs help address the crisis of democracy? Our two experts come from very di
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Episode 8 takes us to Mexico. We look at what it really takes to make participatory programs work in practice, and ask whether their success is less about design and more about discipline. Dino Cantú-Pedraza, Founder and
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Episode 7 takes us to Lisbon, Portugal. We look at what is probably the best-known participatory tool, participatory budgeting, and discuss how it helped transform Lisbon from a city in crisis into one that attracts peop
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Episode Six takes us to Delhi, India. In 2001, in the low-income neighbourhoods of east Delhi, residents used India's new Right to Information Act to audit the Public Distribution System — the government programme meant
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Episode Five takes us to Lezhë, Albania. In conversation with Vasilika Laska, Director of Strategic Projects for the Municipality, we explore how the city is rethinking its foundations after a severe debt crisis. How sho
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Episode Four takes us to Athens, Greece. In conversation with Amalia Zepou, former Vice Mayor of the City of Athens, we explore how one citizen’s frustration with the state of her city grew into her running for office an
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Episode Three takes us to Surakarta, Indonesia. In conversation with Nina Asterina and Bima Pratama Putra from the Kota Kita Foundation, we explore what it means to take inclusion seriously. On a single busy street, wher
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Episode Two takes us to Chimanimani, Zimbabwe. In conversation with Nyasha Frank Mpahlo from Green Governance Africa, we explore how legislative theatre can transform confrontation into dialogue. Through drama, community
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Episode One takes us to Budapest, Hungary. In conversation with Tessza Udvarhelyi, Vice Mayor of Budapest’s 8th District, we explore how participatory processes can become a winning edge in local elections, boost voter t
Show notesWe’re living through a global democratic crisis, and if we’re honest, we don’t really know how to fix it. Elections around the world are sending a clear message: the system isn’t working. It Takes a City is a podcast abo
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