Youth

In Hartford, CT, the City Scan Project equips ordinary citizens with high-tech tools to help them improve their neighborhoods and cities. From Government Technology magazine.

A look at how teens came to help plan, design - and manage - a skate park in New York's Riverside Park. A Success Story from the Urban Parks Institute.

A study of teen centers across the United States and Canada by Dr. Peter Witt of Texas A&M University.

Unique programs that employ both traditional activities and technological advances to capture the imaginations of young people.

A growing database of success stories on youth-at-risk programs, from Canada's Leisure Information Network. Full reviews of partnerships involved, nature of the program, etc.

A design process that gathered input from schools and in-kind donations from businesses and organizations turned a children's play area, and the environmental restoration project surrounding it, into a backyard, a schoolyard and a science classroom.

Bibliography on teens and their use of the physical environment, created by Patsy Eubanks Owens, Assistant Professor or Landscape Architecture, U.C. Davis.

A 30-minute video covering the basic issues that municipal planners, youth recreation workers and youth and youth groups need to know to get started on creating urban recreational spaces that are designed, built and used by empowered youth.

A description of a project using teen volunteers to do water quality monitoring and conservation/restoration efforts in Portland.

The City of Melbourne shares its successful plan for mending the rift between skaters and other users of public space.

Recommendations from South Australia's Crime Prevention Unit on how to address the needs of young people who use public space.

A partnership helps a vocational high school in Chicago extend its student-run food service to the Garfield Park Conservatory across the street. A Success Story from the Urban Parks Institute.