Youth in Planning

01/18/2014

Release date: January 16, 2014Release Number: HQ-14-003WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is seeking applicants for its Youth Preparedness Council.The Youth Preparedness Council is a unique opportunity for youth leaders to serve on a hi...

02/02/2013

Do you live in Corona, Queens? Please follow this link to fill out our survey and help us redesign Corona Plaza!

10/15/2012

http://blogs.planning.org/kids/2012/10/12/update-from-brooklyns-urban-planning-high-school/

TheAcademy of Urban Planningin Brooklyn opened as part of the New Century High School Initiatives, a program that aimed to reform large traditional high schools and transform them into smaller, theme-based learning communities. Many large schools were closed and replaced by smaller schools emphasizi...

10/07/2012

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/an-undocumented-youths-struggle-for-higher-education/?smid=fb-share

As summer gives way to fall, one young illegal immigrant's hopes of a college education and a stable, prosperous future are clouded by anxieties of deportation and other obstacles.

09/14/2012

http://blogs.planning.org/kids/2012/09/14/chinatown-urban-institute-a-living-lab-for-youth/

Based in San Francisco, the Chinatown Urban Institute is a youth empowerment and professional development program offered by the Chinatown Community Development Center (CCDC) to nurture the next generation of architects, urban planners, and community organizers.

09/10/2012

A new announcement from the City for a projdct just feet away from the YiP Fall 2012 project site - Re-imagining the East River Waterfront. This would fit pretty well with their designs!

Mayor Mike Bloomberg, NYCEDC, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and Hunter College today announced plans to build a new, state-of-the-art healthcare facility and nursing school in Manhattan: http://bit.ly/OBoGrB

08/23/2012

http://coronasplaza.com/

08/07/2012

This is a great project, and these interns are producing amazing work. Keep up the great job.

The 12 interns are gaining familiarity with the technologies commonly used in the environmental fields as they inventory and map street trees in Western Queens. This summer, 12 high school students are gaining a competitive edge in the green jobs market through Trees New York’s Young Urban Forester ...

07/27/2012

Kids’ Planning Toolbox blog editor Rana Salzmann interviews Charlie Compton, FAICP, director of the Lexington County, South Carolina, Department of Planning and GIS, about his choice of planning as a career.

07/20/2012

Our trash does not magically disappear overnight -- it has to go somewhere. Residents for Sane Trash Solutions should join the rest of us in taking on their fair share of the city's waste burden.