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Growing Up Â鶹¹ÙÍø Director, Mara Mintzer's, TEDx talk will be featured on TED's main platform launching Nov. 7. Growing Up Â鶹¹ÙÍø 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 Â鶹¹ÙÍø'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 Â鶹¹ÙÍø, Colorado, where Growing Up Â鶹¹ÙÍø asks kids themselves what they want, and the city incorporates its tiniest residents' ideas into transportation and other municipal plans.

Colorado MetroLab, a partnership between CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø and Colorado city governments, organized a design workshop where CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø environmental design (ENVD) students, neighborhood residents and elementary school students gave their ideas for revitalizing Â鶹¹ÙÍø's University Hill area.

Growing Up Â鶹¹ÙÍø and the city of Â鶹¹ÙÍø, Colorado, are actively involving all stakeholders to make it a child- and youth-friendly city.

BikeLife Â鶹¹ÙÍø looks at a partnership between Growing Up Â鶹¹ÙÍø and GO Â鶹¹ÙÍø 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 Â鶹¹ÙÍø (GUB), a youth-friendly initiative.