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The City of Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Friday launched an interactive map<\/a> that allows users to explore the 72 projects that have won funding through city’s participatory budgeting initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The city Budget Office worked with the Cambridge Geographic Information System<\/a> to produce the map, which displays each project\u2019s location, completion status and site photos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cambridge began its tenth participatory budget process last September, in which residents submitted more than 1,100 ideas for how to spend $2 million of the city’s 2025 budget. Eight projects<\/a> won funding, including free maternity services<\/a>, smart recycling and trash compactors<\/a>, improving pedestrian safety<\/a> and upgrades to public restrooms<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From March 7-17, a record 10,522 Cambridge residents aged 12 and older voted on a select few proposals, a 20% increase in voter participation from the previous cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participatory budgeting, a democratic process in which community members can decide how to spend part of a public budget, was first developed in Brazil in 1989. The process is now used in over 1,500 cities around the world, including 29 cities in the United States, including Boston; Chicago; Greensboro, North Carolina; New York and Vallejo, California, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the announcement, the map will be regularly updated and is accessible via mobile or desktop devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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