My Neighborhood 2017

Idea collection and review

A collection of ideas for My Neighborhood was conducted from March 1 to March 24, 2017. A total of 1081 ideas were submitted in the whole of Reykjavík. As in the past, everyone was allowed to submit an idea and idea creators were encouraged to submit well-crafted ideas in accordance with the prerequisites of the idea collection. This was the sixth time that ideas were collected.

After the idea collection, the Reykjavík City professional team—comprising representatives from the Transportation Division and the Division of Open Spaces, specialists in lighting, pedestrian walkways, and streets, and the Head of Landscaping—began its assessment and relevant experts were contacted in cases that required further expert input.

After completing the idea assessment, the neighborhood councils met with City staff to evaluate the submitted ideas in the neighborhood, and review projects in the popular order they appear on the consultation website. Neighborhood councils look at, among other things, the distribution of projects around their neighborhoods and which projects will be dropped after a review by a team of professionals. If a neighborhood council considers that the ranking of the remaining projects (up to 25) is such that certain parts of the neighborhood are overly favored, the council may try equalize the distribution by replacing up to 5 of the 25 top projects with projects lower on the list (assuming that there are more than 25 projects). In so doing, the council should bear in mind in this context the popularity of the replaced ideas.