| Youth Master Plans Guide Action April 2011 In recent months, three cities — Nashville, Tennessee; Grand Rapids, Michigan; and Berkeley, California — have moved forward with new youth master plans, each completing a goal set as part of their participation in the Mayor's Action Challenge for Children and Families. |
| Youth are 100% of the Future January 2011 Pam Phan, Youth Program Coordinator for the City of Portland, OR, describes the Youth Planning Program that engages young people in on-the-ground planning projects. |
| Connecting Children with Community: Box City October 2010 University of Maryland Professor Alexander Chen talks about connecting children with their communities. |
| Reflections on Intergenerational Planning in Atlanta's McDaniel Glenn July 2010 Reflections on youth participation in a HOPE VI renewal project. |
| Inner City Catholic Schools Make Bold Plans and Share Big Dreams for the Future of Chicago July 2010 Learn about a project for 5th grade students sponsored by the Big Shoulders Fund in Chicago. |
| No Matter the Place, Secondary-Level Module Hits Home: Project Learning Tree August 2009 In 2006, Project Learning Tree (PLT), the award-winning environmental education program of the American Forest Foundation, along with the American Planning Association and other partners, developed Places We Live, a secondary-level module in which students develop and strengthen their sense of place through a focus on environmental, social, and economic issues. |
| FLIP for 2040 August 2009 Youth in northeastern Illinois learn about planning issues and make recommendations for the future of the region through a new program called Future Leaders in Planning. This article describes the experiences of students in the first FLIP cohort. |
| Changing Places April 2009 Teens make films that record their attitudes to their developing neighborhoods with the support of a professional filmmaker and an architecture and built environment center. See the finished films on YouTube. |
| Future Leaders in Planning August 2008 The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) has established a Future Leaders in Planning (FLIP), an eight-month program designed to give high school freshmen and sophomores the opportunity to learn about the region while interacting with their peers from other counties as well as regional leaders involved in planning decision making. |
| Living Water Smart in British Columbia August 2008 The British Columbia (B.C.) government in Canada has announced plans to begin a new program, “Living Water Smart,” in the 2009-2010 school year. The program is designed to turn students into water stewards by providing them with a basic understanding of stream health and riparian zones. |
| Youth Planners Play an Integral Role in Planning Hampton, Virginia May 2008 Cindy Carlson of the Hampton (VA) Coalition for Youth profiles some busy planners in the Hampton planning department...who also happen to be high school students. |
| Community YouthMapping Management Institute April 2008 This spring, the Academy for Educational Development (AED) is hosting two one-day seminars for people interested in holding a Community YouthMapping (CYM) workshop in their own communities. |
| Vancouver's Civic Youth Strategy February 2008 In 1995, the Vancouver, British Columbia, City Council passed the Civic Youth Strategy, planting a seed that has grown into a number of innovative programs -- both youth-run and youth-focused. |
| SLURRPing Up Stormwater Before It Becomes Runoff Pollution December 2007 Through the Baltimore-based Living Classroom Foundation’s School Leadership in Urban Runoff Reduction Project (SLURRP), students explore how to help nature “slurp” up stormwater before it turns into runoff pollution. |
| Youth Master Planning: Building an Infrastructure to Help Young People Succeed October 2007 Cities are using creative programs to allow youth to become stakeholders, planners, and committed citizens of their communities. Michael Karpman of the National League Cities’ Institute for Youth, Education, and Families discusses “youth master planning” and other youth-powered civic involvement efforts. |
| New High School Architecture Textbook Is the First of Its Kind in the Country September 2007 The Chicago Architecture Foundation has recently released “The Architecture Handbook: A Student Guide to Understanding Buildings”, a first of its kind college-prep architecture textbook for high school students. CAF Education Specialists Jennifer Masengarb and Krisann Rehbein give an overview of the goals, writing process, and content of this pioneering publication. |
| At Kids’ City, Third Graders Become Planners July 2007 The goal of Kids’ City is to educate young people about community planning and the function of their community government. Nekya J. Young, a planner in Rutherford County, Tennessee, describes the county's local program. |
| Leading Community Change: Teaching Chicago High School Students about Planning (Updated) June 2007 The Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development at DePaul University has created Leading Community Change, a pilot program to introduce high school students in Chicago's West Garfield Park neighborhood to zoning, policy, and planning. |
| Planting Seeds, Growing Communities: Training and Educational Resources for Children (T.E.R.C.) June 2007 T.E.R.C. is a ten year-old organization that promotes educational programs that inspire young people to develop entrepreneurial skills. These programs incorporate prevention and intervention practices through the arts, culture, horticulture, and environmental betterment. |
| National and Global Youth Service Day May 2007 National & Global Youth Service Day (N & GYSD) is the largest service event in the world, mobilizing millions of young people from the U.S. and abroad to identify and address the needs of their communities through service. |
| Pennsylvania Land Choices: Lessons in Land Use Planning May 2007 Pennsylvania Land Choices is a program that orients teachers of grades 6-12 to land use concepts and practices and gives them a level of confidence in teaching them to their students. |
| New Milwaukee High School will Focus on Urban Planning and Architecture April 2007 In exciting news, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee planning and architecture faculty, along with Milwaukee Public Schools, are heading a project to establish a small public high school in Milwaukee's near south side that will focus on architecture and urban planning. |
| Learning to Give: A K-12 Philanthropy Project March 2007 Learning to Give, a project spearheaded by the Council on Michigan Foundations, is a monumental effort to bring philanthropy and service learning into the classroom. It is a resource that every teacher, parent, youth worker, religious instructor, and civic organization should be aware of. |
| Urban Planning as a High School Theme in Brooklyn, New York March 2007 At the Academy of Urban Planning in Brooklyn, a theme-based curriculum taps into students’ curiosity about their environment, teaches skills needed for modern careers, and puts them on a path aimed towards higher education. |
| Several Planning-related Lesson Plans February 2007 The Lesson Plans Page has many free lesson plans related to cities, geography, and transportation. |
| UrbanPlan: The Urban Land Institute's Classroom-based Planning Program February 2007 The Urban Land Institute's UrbanPlan is one of the best resources available for teaching high school students about planning. It engages them directly in the planning process as they take on the role of a developer with the charge of revitalizing a neighborhood. |
| Cities of Today, Cities of Tomorrow: United Nations Curriculum February 2007 Cities of Today, Cities of Tomorrow is a six-week curriculum from the United Nations CyberSchoolBus that encourages students to think about, and plan, the cities of the future. |
| Walk and Bike Across America February 2007 Don't let the title humble you: Walk and Bike Across America is something every classroom can achieve...with a little collaboration and imagination. |
| Looks Count! Connections Between the Visual and Built Environment February 2007 “Looks Count!” is an interdisciplinary middle school curriculum unit that incorporates social studies, math, language arts, visual arts, and science into the design of the built environment. |
| Living Lightly in the City February 2007 “Living Lightly in the City” is an environmental education guidebook designed to inspire an awareness in young students of their immediate community environment. |
| Project WET: Water Stewardship February 2007 Project WET publishes water education materials and lesson plans that encourage water resources stewardship in young people. |
| Acorn Naturalists: An Extensive Environmental Education Catalogue February 2007 Acorn Naturalists offers a wealth of environmental education publications and training for teachers, naturalists, interpreters, parents, and many others. |
| National Environmental Education Week February 2007 National Environmental Education Week is the largest organized environmental education event in the U.S. |
| Sustainability Education Programs and Publications from the Izaak Walton League January 2007 The Izaak Walton League, one of the nation's earliest conservation organizations, has conservation programs that guide their many publications and activist training. |
| Autodesk Design Education Resources January 2007 Autodesk, a leading software and services company, has long provided educational resources relating to design and design software. Selected resources are highlighted in this article. |
| City Building Education: A Nationally Recognized Educational Model January 2007 City Building Education™ is an innovative, nationally-recognized educational model developed over 35 years ago by Cal Poly Ponoma professor Doreen Nelson. It uses the built environment as a focal point and vehicle for learning. |
| Architecture in Education January 2007 Architecture in Education, a program of the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, brings architects, landscape architects, and other design experts into the classroom to help students learn how cities are made. |
| ViewFinders: Environmental Literacy Curriculum from the Dunn Foundation December 2006 The Dunn Foundation's ViewFinders curriculum includes two exceptional placed-based educational programs. |
| Project Learning Tree - Exploring Environmental Issues: Places We Live December 2006 Project Learning Tree, the environmental education program of the American Forest Foundation, has created a new secondary curriculum for high school students. |
| Youth Community Video Program Takes Off August 2005 The Rural School and Community Trust has a new curriculum, entitled “Lights, Camera...Leadership!”, which guides high school students in “making and premiering a community video of some important issue in their community.” |
| The Build San Francisco Institute August 2005 The Build San Francisco Institute offers full credit courses in Architectural Design and Urban Sociology to any interested San Francisco high school junior or senior in the city. |
| Y-PLAN: A Collaborative Youth Planning Program August 2004 Y-PLAN, a youth engagement program launched by U.C. Berkeley's Center for Cities & Schools in 2000, puts high school students together with graduate students, government agencies and other stakeholders to work on local land use and community revitalization issues. |
| Making Community Connections: The Orton Community Mapping Program August 2004 This book is designed to bring teams of teachers and their students together with community members to study a problem, a resource, a condition - any matter of interest and importance to the community. |
| Youth Play a Major Role in Minnesota Community Center June 2003 An account of the development of the Mosaic Youth Center in Minnesota, along with links to information about the Center's current programs. |
| Boston Planners and Designers Help Kids Plan Boston's Future August 2002 In the last seven years, more than 30 members of Boston's planning and design community have shared their expertise through Citizen Schools, a unique apprenticeship-based, after-school education program in Boston. |
| Atlanta Youth Leadership Program Yields Bold Ideas in Regional Thinking October 2001 Picture this: A region with lots of sidewalks, scores of mixed-use communities, new transit options, luscious forests and trails on the banks of an urban river, and a sharp reduction in the homeless population. For Atlanta, it is merely a dream. But, in the minds of about 40 high school students, it is a vision of the future. |
| Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Institute for Educators June 2001 The Community Mapping Program (CMP) complements and illuminates both traditional and alternative learning by empowering youth to understand and contribute to the community where they live. |
| Education for a Sustainable Future: A K-12 Sustainability Curriculum July 2000 The Center for a Sustainable Future, a division of The Concord Consortium, and Cobb County (Georgia) Public Schools have developed Education for a Sustainable Future, a K-12 curriculum on sustainability. |
| National 4-H Council Curriculum on Transportation and the Environment November 1999 With “Going Places, Making Choices: Transportation and the Environment,” the Council has succeeded in developing another outstanding educational resource. |
| Architects Promote Young Designers in Action (In the Spotlight) April 1999 Many of the great elementary school teachers understand the power of hands-on project-based learning. To this end, they often bring architecture-based projects into their classrooms to create opportunities for children to use their intellectual, visual, and kinesthetic sensibilities in a new way. |
| Kids Plan Baltimore (In the Spotlight) January 1998 The Baltimore City Department of Planning initiated a 14-month process to develop a comprehensive plan for Baltimore for the next ten years. Baltimore's kids will play a role in helping to shape that future. |
| Discovering Neighborhood and Civic Life (In the Spotlight) July 1997 If young people are to develop a commitment to civic life, that is, the conviction that they can shape and reshape the future of the community in which they live, then we need to prepare this diverse audience by utilizing a variety of teaching methods for civic learning as well as present role models of citizenship. |
| Lemon Grove Kids Element (In the Spotlight) January 1996 In preparing a recent update of its comprehensive General Plan, the City of Lemon Grove, California, recognized the importance of seeking input from children in the community. |
| Making Connections: The MacArthur Neighborhood Urban Plan January 1996 The MacArthur Neighborhood Urban Plan is the result of a program designed by students at the University of California at Berkeley. These graduate students in the Department of City and Regional Planning wanted to share their knowledge of relevant planning issues and skills with high school students. |
| Oakland Youth Learn by Doing (In the Spotlight) December 1993 Oakland is home to a growing number of programs and projects through which young people are learning about and improving their neighborhoods, as well as expanding their skills and career options. |
| Louisiana Chapter APA Trains Junior City Planners July 1993 This summer the LA APA Education Committee held a one week day camp program to teach kids about planning. |
| The Living Environment; 3-D Learning: a vehicle for creative development April 1991 City Building Education founder Doreen Nelson discusses the value of three-dimensional learing and building model cities in classrooms. |
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