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Vote for your park, an exercise of direct democracy
The city of London has recently launched a very interesting initiative. They invite citizens to vote to decide where to allocate ten grants of up to £ 400,000 each for the most needy parks.
In order to make it easier for participants, authorities have divided the forty seven deserving parks into five London sub-regions. For each of those sub-regions, the two parks that get the most votes will be the winners.
Voting ends on January 30th, and londoners have three main ways for voting: through an online form on the web, by post, or … Continue Reading