# How kids can help design cities

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxMileHigh
- Speaker: Mara Mintzer
- Year: 2017
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Society and politics
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/mara_mintzer_how_kids_can_help_design_cities)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Adults tend to think of kids as "future citizens" -- their ideas and opinions will matter someday, just not today. But kids make up a quarter of the population, so shouldn't they have a say in what the world they'll inherit will look like? Urban planner Mara Mintzer shares what happened when she and her team asked kids to help design a park in Boulder, Colorado -- and how it revealed an important blind spot in how we construct the built environment. "If we aren't including children in our planning, who else aren't we including?" Mintzer asks.

## Lectures

1. [How kids can help design cities](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/mara_mintzer_how_kids_can_help_design_cities/1f35d56b0365), 15 min (TED's player)