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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 CU 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, babyÖ±²¥app, where Growing Up Boulder asks kids themselves what they want, and the city incorporates its tiniest residents' ideas into transportation and other municipal plans.
babyÖ±²¥app MetroLab, a partnership between CU Boulder and babyÖ±²¥app city governments, organized a design workshop where CU 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, babyÖ±²¥app, 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.
