NeighborSpace’s mission is to preserve and support the development of community managed gardens and open spaces throughout the City of Chicago. This mission is accomplished by acquiring land on behalf of communities to protect community established and managed gardens from development, supporting the long-term success of these community efforts, and building awareness of how these urban “Edens” contribute to an improved quality of life for residents.

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Early 2015, La Mariscal community started a process for creating sustainability in the neighborhood by launching a model which aims the creation of an auto-regulated territory, looking to ensure prosperity in the neighborhood resulting from the best possible balance between social, environmental and economic needs. This will be achieved by working with the community in the following axis: Security, Urban Agriculture, Social Services, Public Space and Mobility.

The model continuous to be validated by the community and external participants with the use of an app which supplies indicators to be used as a channel for social needs and accountability in a process we call “Public Moral Intuition”.

In-house, hand-on-hand community networking has allowed to take possession of several abandoned lots, which were used mostly for delinquency. Today they are operated by the community for several social needs that were absent around the area. This is the case of two houses which now hold a Community House and La Mariscal’s own Police Station.

In order to weave social bonds among the community, the model ensures community involvement by providing workshops, meetings, and gathering areas in each line of action referred in the project.

Contact : info@opuslamariscal.org

The LINQ is an accelerator of innovation, it is an open door between the Municipality and the citizenship that works under a participatory, collaborative and transparent framework.

Its mission is to foster a culture of innovation and co-creation, facilitating the participation of multidisciplinary actors that contribute to research, methodologies and solutions that benefit citizens in key issues oriented mainly to social, urban and mobility development.

LINQ is an initiative of the General Secretariat of Planning of the Municipality of Quito as part of the Open Government policy of the current administration.

Open Government is a responsible government policy that promotes the construction of a smart city for people.

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