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Growing Up Boulder Director, Mara Mintzer's, TEDx talk will be featured on TED's main platform launching Nov. 7. Growing Up Boulder 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 Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder'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 Boulder, Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ, where Growing Up Boulder asks kids themselves what they want, and the city incorporates its tiniest residents' ideas into transportation and other municipal plans.
Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ MetroLab, a partnership between Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder and Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ city governments, organized a design workshop where Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder environmental design (ENVD) students, neighborhood residents and elementary school students gave their ideas for revitalizing Boulder's University Hill area.
Growing Up Boulder and the city of Boulder, Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ, are actively involving all stakeholders to make it a child- and youth-friendly city.
BikeLife Boulder looks at a partnership between Growing Up Boulder and GO Boulder 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 Boulder (GUB), a youth-friendly initiative.
