Creating Places. Engaging Minds.
We are creating meaningful ways for youth to shape equitable and sustainable cities.
What We Do
Strategy + DesignWe are experts at engaging youth in the consultation and design phases of youth-facing projects and services for public and non-profit organizations.
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WorkshopsWe deliver city-building workshops for schools and youth organizations that focus on empathy.
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1UP ProgramWe enable high school students to lead their own community design-build projects by providing inspiration, leadership training, and project mentorship.
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News & Views
Our latest youth engagement events and stories.
What Makes a City Feel like Home?
It’s starting to become harder to remember what the cities we lived in felt like before the pandemic. Despite having fewer touch points with the city, I still felt a sense of place; a sense of connection with increasingly virtual places. It made me wonder — with the pandemic that the city has experienced over the last 2 years, what connects people to the city they live in?
Written by Selina Phan, Outreach Coordinator |
2021: Overcoming The Odds
2021 marks Urban Minds’ fifth anniversary, and what a journey it has been. In the last five years, we have grown from a young trio of friends to an organization of over 30 volunteers and board members, who share the same passion for educating and equipping the next generation of city builders.
Written by Ryan Lo, Co-Founder
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Reclaiming Our Streets
City streets are a critical part of municipal infrastructure, and good street design is necessary for smart, future development. Not only do we travel on streets every day to get to work and school; as a concept, streets are a basic unit of urban space, and necessarily impact how we experience our cities.
Written by Lulu DeLuca, 1UP Director of Finance
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