Urban Minds
  • Cities For Youth
  • Strategy + Design
    • 'Your Markham Centre' Secondary Plan
    • 'Our Future City' Mississauga
    • Building Markham's Future Together
    • #WouldYouRatherTO
    • #WouldYouRatherMC
    • Brake at Bond
    • Weekly Warm-Ups
    • #10veyourcity
    • Future Cities, Future Us
  • Workshops
  • 1UP
  • About
    • Team
    • Apply
    • Press
    • 5 Years of Urban Minds
  • Newsletter
  • Blog

Youth-led
​city building

Creating Places. Engaging Minds.

​We are creating meaningful ways for youth to shape equitable and sustainable cities.

What We Do

Picture

​Strategy + Design

We are experts at engaging youth in the consultation and design phases of youth-facing projects and services for public and non-profit organizations.
learn more
Picture

Workshops

We deliver city-building workshops for schools and youth organizations that focus on empathy.
​

learn more
Picture

1UP Program

We enable high school students to lead their own community design-build projects by providing inspiration, leadership training, and project mentorship.
learn more

Cities For Youth
​
Our Toolkit for Youth Engagement in Planning

 A helpful resource for planners and community engagement professionals
looking to better connect with the new generation
​and deliver more youth-friendly outcomes
Learn More

News & Views

Our latest youth engagement events and stories.
Picture
Building bridges is hard, but we do it anyway.
Whenever I describe my work at Urban Minds to people I meet, I find myself going back to the same analogy time and again: we build bridges between decision-makers and youth to create better cities together.
Written by Ryan Lo, Urban Minds Co-Founder
read more
Picture
Who knew a few parking spaces could help form a community?
How might we transform the parking spaces in front of 105 Bond Street into a more welcoming, safe and enjoyable place for students?" Over 50 undergraduate and graduate students from Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Urban and Regional Planning (TMU SURP) contemplated this question just before the start of the 2022 school year. Fast forward to Friday, September 16, 2022. It’s Park(ing) Day, which is a global, public, participatory art project where people across the world temporarily repurpose street parking spaces as tiny parks and places for art, play, and activism. 
Written by Angela Ng, Co Founder of Urban Minds
read more
Picture
Our Experiences Presenting at the OPPI Conference 2022
YEP. Now, how?
​As I reflect on my experiences with Urban Minds, I have to smile, because oftentimes in hindsight we never really know what we’re signing up for. A few short hours await Patrycia, Catherine and I before delivering our presentation, YEP. Now, how?, at the annual OPPI-OALA conference in London. 
This is a special edition of the Urban Minds blog, co-written by Matthew James (left), Catherine Caetano-Macdonnell (middle) and Patrycia Menko (right).
read more
Visit our bloG
for more stories from our Urban Minds and 1UP youth team.

Interested in working with us? Let's chat.

Contact us

Subscribe to our mailing list

* indicates required

We're always looking for collaborators and partnerships.

If you're interested in city building and youth engagement,
​give us a shout at hello@urbanminds.co
© COPYRIGHT 2022. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
  • Cities For Youth
  • Strategy + Design
    • 'Your Markham Centre' Secondary Plan
    • 'Our Future City' Mississauga
    • Building Markham's Future Together
    • #WouldYouRatherTO
    • #WouldYouRatherMC
    • Brake at Bond
    • Weekly Warm-Ups
    • #10veyourcity
    • Future Cities, Future Us
  • Workshops
  • 1UP
  • About
    • Team
    • Apply
    • Press
    • 5 Years of Urban Minds
  • Newsletter
  • Blog