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Victoria Derr, Senior Instructor

Child Friendly Cities as Resilient Cities Understanding and Fostering Resilience through Participatory Planning with Boulder's Young People. Victoria Derr, Senior Instructor. This work is supported by CU Office of Outreach and Engagement and the City of Boulder. Child Friendly Cities.

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Victoria Derr, Senior Instructor

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  1. Child Friendly Cities as Resilient Cities Understanding and Fostering Resilience through Participatory Planning with Boulder's Young People • Victoria Derr, Senior Instructor This work is supported by CU Office of Outreach and Engagement and the City of Boulder

  2. Child Friendly Cities Rights-based focus of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Participatory approaches of UNESCO’s Growing Up in Cities

  3. Courtesy Rosie Parnell

  4. Child Friendly Cities Resilient Cities social justice agency/ stewardship multisectoral governance

  5. Participation Child Friendly Cities Resilient Cities social justice agency/ stewardship multisectoral governance

  6. The government asks my opinions about my life or my community

  7. Meaningful but Uneven • In response to the question “The Government Listens to My Ideas?” • “Well they just did, but I don’t know if I’ll ever have that opportunity again.” – 11 year old

  8. “Feeling included matters because the public realm is where children and young people learn about society, where they explore it, observe it, absorb it’s values, and gain a sense of belonging.” - Claire Freeman

  9. Emergent Resilience

  10. Natural Capital • Natural and diverse spaces integrated throughout the neighborhood • Diverse types of nature: creek play, wild zones, gardens, fruit trees, green roofs, courtyards • Use of hills and berms for flood mitigation and PLAY • Sustainable and renewable materials and processes Renderings by Shane Powers Images Shane Powers, Nathalie Doyle, Whittier Students

  11. Social Capital • Social, cultural, and economic equity and integration • Expansion of thinking – resilience thinking + diverse needs Photo BodieHultin Images BodieHultin, Stephen Cardinale, Tina Briggs

  12. Communicating Values • “My challenge was thinking of our design because everybody disagreed. I overcame this by civil discourse.” • - Whittier International Elementary School Student Image Lynn M. Lickteig

  13. Feeling Valued • “I learned that my voice/input is important, and our community cares about the youth.” • - Boulder High Student Image BodieHultin

  14. Contributing to Community • “I like that we are able to share our ideas with the city to make the civic area a better place for people” – Casey Middle School Student • “I appreciate that we got to contribute to [the design of] a place in our community.” – Boulder High Student Image Emily Tarantini

  15. Understanding Others Images Stephen Cardinale It was so cool seeing through their eyes what this all means.  I could tell they care a lot about their community and the future of it.  They changed the way we were thinking about designing. . . – ENVD student

  16. Wanting to Care for Each Other • “When water was pouring into Frasier Meadows during the flood, people from the neighborhood came out to help, as a result of the better community relations they had developed during the project . . . • The relationships we started to build, there is a whole lot more of wanting to take care of each other. We have better relationships with the community.”

  17. Perceptions of Resilience

  18. What makes you feel resilient? Image Emily Tarantini

  19. Family, friendship, supportive networks & activities Photos courtesy Emily Tarantini

  20. Nature “Nature makes me feel relaxed and free from the world.”

  21. What doesn’t make you feel resilient? Image Emily Tarantini

  22. Environmental concerns Photo courtesy Jacqui

  23. Money and economic concerns Photos courtesy Nelly Arellano (left) and Emily Tarantini (right)

  24. [Not] Feeling accepted

  25. Brotherhood . . . and cultural exclusion “I chose brotherhood, because my friends and family would always have my back no matter what. Boulder has many struggles, but the community has always been there.” Photos courtesy YSI youth

  26. Where do you feel most resilient? Images Emily Tarantini

  27. Where do you feel resilient?

  28. Where resilient?

  29. Uneven Resilience? Persistent Resilience Los Angeles Boulder Mexico City

  30. Mexico City “The street is the most hostile place.” Image Courtesy Tuline Gulgonen and Yolanda Corona Caraveo

  31. Boulder

  32. Resilience is . . . • . . . “taking care of others and our community.” • – Boulder High Students Photo BodieHultin

  33. Thank You! Tori Derr victoria.derr@colorado.edu This work is supported by CU Office of Outreach and Engagement and the City of Boulder

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