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Mara Mintzer: How kids can help design cities

Adults tend to think of kids as "future citizens" — their ideas and opinions will matter someday, just not today. But kids make up a quarter of the population, so shouldn't they have a say in what the world they'll inherit will look like? Urban planner Mara Mintzer shares what happened when she and her team asked kids to help design a park in Boulder, Colorado — and how it revealed an important blind spot in how we construct the built environment. "If we aren't including children in our planning, who else aren't we including?" Mintzer asks.

English
  • Originally Aired November 7, 2018
  • Runtime 15 minutes
  • Content Rating United States of America TV-PG
  • Production Code MaraMintzer_2017X
  • Network YouTube
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Name Type Role
Mara Mintzer Guest Star