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New Brooklyn (NYC) high school aims to create social justice-focused design professionals
Design Works High School, opening this autumn in downtown Brooklyn, New York City, has a mission: to create socially conscious design professionals.Read more![20210719_141706](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/20210719_141706-128x128.jpg)
City planning and design with and for young teenagers: Building a ‘teenage space network’ in Antwerp
Young teenagers are often overlooked or neglected in planning and design. The City of Antwerp commissioned Kind & Samenleving (Childhood & Society Research Centre) to map and design a ‘teenage space network plan’ for the Wilrijk...Read more![GDCI](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/GDCI-128x128.png)
Child-friendly street transformations improve neighbourhood quality of life
Children experience street infrastructure uniquely. However, how we design streets doesn’t always consider children’s needs.Read more![Screenshot 2021-12-09 at 12.36.12](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Screenshot-2021-12-09-at-12.36.12-128x128.png)
GDCI’s Streets for Kids selects the 10 cities to get ‘next level’ support
The Global Designing Streets Initiative (GDCI), a project designed to bring about real positive change for children in cities, has unveiled the 10 cities that will get ‘next level’ support to bring their ideas to...Read more![LOVE Park, Philadelphia](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/LOVEPark_J.Fusco_01-128x128.jpg)
If we love our cities, we’ll make better decisions about their future after the pandemic
It’s the most famous city slogan in the world: I Love New York. And yet, surprisingly, love doesn’t seem to play a part in how urban planners build cities.Read more![minecraft-669310_1280](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/minecraft-669310_1280-128x128.jpg)