City Hall to Go

Summary The City of Boston’s “City Hall To Go” is an ongoing, Boston-based initiative that seeks to provide mayoral services in underserved communities through staffed food truck vehicles.[1] Rather than serving food, the food truck vehicles are designed in order to enable constituents to complete a range of municipal transactions,...

The First Teenagers’ Municipal Council: “Living Together in a Multicultural World”

Introduction The 1st Teenagers’ Municipal Council, held in the city of Ilion, Greece in 2015, was a simulation of the Ilion Municipal Council intended to familiarize high school-aged constituents with local democratic institutions. The event was held within the framework of the European Local Democracy Week — an annual a...