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Y-PLAN (Youth - Plan, Learn, Act, Now!)
Y-PLAN is an award-winning initiative where youth are engaged as genuine stakeholders and participants in local planning projects with the mentorship of UC Berkeley students in urban planning, design, and education. |
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Funded by the UC Links Program and Stuart Foundation, UCB mentors are enrolled in an interdisciplinary seminar class looking at the intersection of city planning and education. Course lectures and discussion focus on theoretical tools in participatory planning, community development, and teaching, complemented with practical application.
High school students work side-by-side with UCB mentors for ten weeks, learning the fundamentals of community development by engaging in real world planning projects. As the capstone piece of the curriculum, the high school students present their plans to their "clients" - city leaders and the community. Download the 2010 Y-PLAN Course Description (PDF) The Y-PLAN provides an opportunity for project-based learning in classrooms and challenges professional planners to explain what they do in youth-accessible terms. How do current planning practices limit the involvement of youth, families, and schools? And what are the alternatives? Since 1999, Y-PLAN has worked with the following school districts and client partners:
As documented in our 2007 article (see download link below) in the Journal of Planning Education and Research (Vol 26(4): 389-414), success of the Y-PLAN depends on its meeting the following three conditions:
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