Our Digital Child-Friendly Map is here!!!
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Boulder's new DIGITAL & PRINTED child-friendly city maps are here!!! |
Placemaking with Children and Youth |
Talk featured on TED: How kids can help design cities |
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More than 30 organizations and 700 children, parents, and caregivers co-created the nation's first printed and new digital child-friendly city map!
Free printed maps are available at locations such at the Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Visitors' Center on the Pearl Street Mall, Chautauqua, recreation centers. (Please note that the printed map shown here is for display purposes only; it does not print well unless using 18" x 24" paper.) 
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Winner of the 2019 Achievement Award from the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA).
Read this illustrated and essential guide to engaging children and youth in the process of urban design by Professor and former GUB Co-Coordinator Tori Derr, Professor and GUB Co-Founder Louise Chawla, and GUB Director and Co-Founder Mara Mintzer. Read a review of our book here. |
This talk by Growing Up Boulder Director Mara Mintzer describes the importance of young people's voice in designing their own cities. Viewed more than 2 million times, it features Growing Up Boulder's work.
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Read the new GUB Child-Friendly City Map report here!
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Learn about our child-friendly city map in the news:
TV: Channel 8, Inside Boulder News Print: Daily Camera Radio: KGNU Morning Magazine (minute 16:26) Online: University of Colorado's Environmental Design Program newsletter Blog: How Boulder Valley School District approached the map as part of a larger Project Based Learning initiative, and how the work was featured at the Museum of Boulder | ||
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To stay up to date on all our latest work and events, follow us on Instagram: growing_up_boulder or Facebook: Growing Up Boulder
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Growing Up Boulder is a program of the University of Colorado's Community Engagement Design and Research (CEDaR) Center and a partnership between the University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder Valley School District, and the City of Boulder.
