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Louise Chawla, CEDaR fellow and professor emerita, Mara Mintzer, Growing Up Â鶹ӰԺ program director, and Victoria Derr, authors of "Placemaking with Children and Youth: Participatory Practices for Planning Sustainable Communities," received the 2019 Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) Achievement Award for their publication at EDRA’s 50th anniversary conference. The book has received endorsements from many of the most respected child/youth environmental researchers, practitioners and advocates.

Gov. Jared Polis signed into law a bill that expands regulatory protections for residents across the state’s roughly 900 mobile home parks.

KGNU has a live conversation about a new, first in the nation, printed child-friendly city map that’s helping kids learn how to navigate their way around Â鶹ӰԺ.

Working with about 700 Â鶹ӰԺ elementary students and two Â鶹ӰԺ environmental design seniors, Growing Up Â鶹ӰԺ has created a new, child-friendly map of the city.

Kids in Â鶹ӰԺ will now be able to navigate around town thanks to the first ever child-friendly map, a map made for kids, by kids.

Â鶹ӰԺ environmental design students will present their ideas for enhancing the designs of downtown Longmont’s breezeways, alleys and plazas during a community meeting on Wednesday.

Hear CU Â鶹ӰԺ 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 Â鶹ӰԺ'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 Â鶹ӰԺ, about how GUB incorporates children’s ideas into city planning for friendlier, greener and more inclusive spaces.