Planning Cities With Young People and Schools

Planning Cities With Young People and Schools
Author: Deborah L. McKoy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2021-11-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000467058

Offering the overlooked but essential viewpoint of young people from low-income communities of color and their public schools, Planning Cities With Young People and Schools offers an urgently needed set of best-practice recommendations for urban planners to change the status quo and reimagine the future of our cities for and with young people. Working with more than 10,000 students over two decades from the San Francisco Bay Area, to New York, to Tohoku, Japan, this work produces a wealth of insights on issues ranging from environmental planning, housing, transportation, regional planning, and urban education. Part I presents a theory of change for planning more equitable, youth-friendly cities by cultivating intergenerational communities of practice where young people work alongside city planners and adult professionals. Part II explores youth engagement in resilience, housing, and transportation planning through an analysis of literature and international examples of engaging children and youth in city planning. Part III speaks directly to practitioners, scholars, and students alike, presenting "Six Essentials for Planning Just and Joyful Cities" as necessary precursors to effective city planning with and for our most marginalized, children, youth, and public schools. For academics, policy makers, and practitioners, this book raises the importance of education systems and young people as critical to urban planning and the future of our cities.

Designing Cities with Children and Young People

Designing Cities with Children and Young People
Author: Kate Bishop (Lecturer on the built environment)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781138890824

Global and regional initiatives with local value ; Researching with children and young people ; Instruments with impact: legislation and policy ; Perspectives on participation practices with children and young people.

Creating Better Cities with Children and Youth

Creating Better Cities with Children and Youth
Author: David Driskell
Publisher: Unesco
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2002
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

This practical manual is based on the findings of the "Growing Up in Cities" project developed by UNESCO in a wide range of urban settings in industrialised and developing countries. It contains ideas for engaging young people with their local environment and facilitating their participation in the community development process. Case studies from project sites help to demonstrate the methods in action and show how they can be adapted to meet local needs. The publication provides a useful tool for urban planners, municipal officials, youth workers, non-governmental organisations, educators and others who believe in the value of community education and empowerment as a fundamental building block of a vibrant and resilient civil society.

Urban Planning Education

Urban Planning Education
Author: Andrea I. Frank
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-07-24
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9783319559667

This book examines planning education provision and approaches globally, through a comparative and longitudinal perspective. It explores the emergence of planning education in the 20th century, with its rich variation and yet a remarkable degree of cross-fertilization. Each of the sections of the book is framed by an overview essay which has been prepared by the editors to provide the reader with a critical exposure to relevant scholarship drawing on the detailed case studies and exploratory essays on key issues in planning education. The first part of this volume focuses on the emergence of planning education programs in the twentieth century as a way to understand the current planning education environment. Then we explore how education in urban, regional and spatial planning has developed in different ways in different countries and continents. The final part of this volume aims to envision how planning can adapt and develop to remain relevant to the development of human environments in the 21st century. Urban planning education has become a pervasive practice throughout the world as urbanization and development pressures have increased over the past half century, and as demand increased for professional trained experts to guide those processes. The approaches vary widely, based in part upon the discipline from which the planning program developed as well as the context-specific challenges within the country or region where the program resides.

Education, Space and Urban Planning

Education, Space and Urban Planning
Author: Angela Million
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2016-07-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319389998

This book examines a range of practical developments that are happening in education as conducted in urban settings across different scales. It contains insights that draw upon the fields of urban planning/urbanism, geography, architecture, education and pedagogy. It brings together current thinking and practical experience from German and international perspectives. This discussion is organised in four segments: schools and the neighbourhood; education and the neighbourhood; education and the city and finally, education and the region. Contributors cover a wide range of contemporary and significant socio-political aspects of education over the last decade. They reinforce emergent thinking that space and its urban context are important dimensions of education. This book also underscores the need for more research in the relationships between education and urban development itself. Current urban planning does not fully connect our understanding in education with what we know in the spatial and planning sciences. Accordingly, this release is an early attempt to bring together a growing body of integrated and interdisciplinary reflection on education theory and practice.

Routledge Companion to Professional Awareness and Diversity in Planning Education

Routledge Companion to Professional Awareness and Diversity in Planning Education
Author: Stephen Kofi Diko
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2023-04-21
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1000871770

The Routledge Companion to Professional Awareness and Diversity in Planning Education engenders a discourse on how urban planning as a discipline is being made attractive to children and youth as they consider their career preferences. It also provides a discourse around the diversity challenges facing the institutions for training urban planning professionals. This Companion is an impressive collection of initiatives, experiences, and lessons in helping children, youth, and the general public appreciate the importance of, and the diversity challenge confronting, the urban planning profession and education. It comprises empirical, experimental, and case study research on initiatives to address the professional awareness and diversity challenges in urban planning. It has uniquely assembled voices and experiences from countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. Contributors are educators, practitioners, and activists of urban planning as well as policymakers in their respective countries. This Companion is intended as a resource for urban planning schools and departments, foundations, non-profit organizations, private sector organizations, public institutions, teachers, and alumni, among others to learn and consciously drive efforts to increase planning education awareness among children, youth, and the general public. Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.