Understanding Civic Crowdfunding as a Mechanism for Leveraging Civic Engagement and Urban Innovation

IntroductionOver the past decade, crowdfunding has emerged as a peer-to-peer (P2P) digital technology. It enables a new way to receive support for entrepreneurship in various domains, including canvassing grassroots urban initiatives and tactical urbanism, often with a societal orientation (Stiver et al., 2015). However, such ‘civic’ (meaning, ‘from the citizens’) crowdfunding