%0 Journal Article
%T Diversity of the winning projects of participatory budgeting  in Polish cities in the years 2013–2016
%A Mucha, Agnieszka
%J Geographical Studies
%V 2018
%R 10.4467/20833113PG.18.009.8761
%N Issue 154
%P 55-70
%K participatory budgeting, participation, social activity, cities
%@ 1644-3586
%D 2018
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/prace-geograficzne/article/zroznicowanie-zwycieskich-projektow-budzetu-obywatelskiego-w-latach-2013-2016-w-polskich-miastach
%X 
	 As the number of Polish cities organizing participatory budgeting is growing and the knowledge about the projects being realized is dispersed, an attempt to organize this knowledge has been made. The aim of the article is to present the spatial and quantitative diversity of the winning projects of the budgeting editions to date. The article presents an analysis of all the projects that were chosen for realization in the years 2013–2016 for which the data were publicly available. The analysis included 6061 projects which went through the process of detailed classification, based on the literature on the subject as well as own observations in 243 cities and towns. The analysis points out three main types of projects – 

	 technical infrastructure, social infrastructure and soft projects as well as their numerous subtypes. The results confirm an important role of the projects which focus on sport and recreational functions of urban spaces, on equipping and improving the security of educational establishments and other places where children stay, and on improving the quality of road infrastructure. The author presents the context in which participatory budgeting is functioning, relates own research results to the ones present in the literature on the subject, and suggests directions of further research leading to a better understanding of social motivations in this area and to an evaluation of the winning projects.