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- Hear CU СÀ¶ÊÓÆµ environmental design students present their design ideas for alleys, breezeways and plazas that can help increase the activity and vitality of Longmont's Main Street.
- A Colorado MetroLab project, the Green Infrastructure Decision Tool, has won MetroLab Network's March 2019 "Innovation of the Month" award, given to outstanding projects nationwide that involve local government and university partners.
- Celebrate Growing Up СÀ¶ÊÓÆµ's 10th anniversary and the launch of the nation's first child-friendly map.
- Greater Good magazine talks with Mara Mintzer, director of Growing Up СÀ¶ÊÓÆµ, about how GUB incorporates children’s ideas into city planning for friendlier, greener and more inclusive spaces.
- Join us for a conversation about a new public art installation for University Hill, a collaboration between CEDaR, CU СÀ¶ÊÓÆµ students and faculty and the city of СÀ¶ÊÓÆµ.
- GIS analysis of urban change in Denver indicates high rates of disappearance of green space and increasing imperviousness, which could increase to as much as 69 percent of its surface, excluding DIA, by 2040.
- In an innovative collaboration, СÀ¶ÊÓÆµ County, the city of СÀ¶ÊÓÆµ and the University of Colorado СÀ¶ÊÓÆµ have joined to teach students about careers in sustainability.
- CEDaR interns Scott Reca and Alec Sabatini worked with the Urban Land Institute (ULI), the oldest and largest network of cross-disciplinary real estate and land use experts in the world, to organize a Nov. 7 workshop about the Denver Green Buildings Ordinance.
- Growing Up СÀ¶ÊÓÆµ Director, Mara Mintzer's, TEDx talk will be featured on TED's main platform launching Nov. 7. Growing Up СÀ¶ÊÓÆµ 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 СÀ¶ÊÓÆµ's Community, Engagement Design and Research Center (CEDaR).