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Growing Up ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Director, Mara Mintzer's, TEDx talk will be featured on TED's main platform launching Nov. 7. Growing Up ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ is a CEDaR program.
"Placemaking with Children and Youth: Participatory Practices for Planning Sustainable Communities," which was released Sept. 17 by New Village Press, was written by three women with strong ties to CU ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½'s Community, Engagement Design and Research Center (CEDaR).
Sidewalk Labs looks at how North American cities are turning to a suite of planning and design innovations to keep families. This includes ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, Colorado, where Growing Up ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ asks kids themselves what they want, and the city incorporates its tiniest residents' ideas into transportation and other municipal plans.
Colorado MetroLab, a partnership between CU ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and Colorado city governments, organized a design workshop where CU ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ environmental design (ENVD) students, neighborhood residents and elementary school students gave their ideas for revitalizing ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½'s University Hill area.
Growing Up ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and the city of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, Colorado, are actively involving all stakeholders to make it a child- and youth-friendly city.
BikeLife ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ looks at a partnership between Growing Up ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and GO ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ that gives teens a voice in shaping transportation improvements in the East Arapahoe corridor.
Second-grade English language learners from Whittier Elementary saw their suggestions for upgrading the HOP bus implemented, their input made possible through the CEDaR program Growing Up ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ (GUB), a youth-friendly initiative.
