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UrbanPlan
UrbanPlan is
a realistic, engaging, and academically challenging classroom-based,
web-supported program in which high school students learn the roles,
issues, trade-offs, and economics involved in urban development. It
provides our future voters, neighbors, community leaders, public
officials, and land use professionals with a hands-on experience in
developing realistic land use solutions to vexing urban growth
challenges.
The program, designed to allow students to explore the market and
nonmarket forces that affect the development and redevelopment of
neighborhoods, is currently reaching more than 3,000 students nationwide
at 37 high schools and five universities. More than a dozen ULI District
Councils have been involved with bringing the program to into
schools.
UrbanPlan is based on a program originally created
by the Urban Land Institute (ULI), and implemented by ULI District
Councils in Los Angles, Orange County, and San Francisco, California and
Orlando, Florida. The current version was developed at The Fisher Center
for Real Estate and Urban Economics at the University of California,
Berkeley in collaboration with ULI, and a team of high school economics
and government teachers. This collaboration insured the reality of the
land use problem plus the academic credibility and standards-based
content demanded by educators.
The UrbanPlan curriculum aligns with all state and
national content standards for high school economics and provides a
much-needed local government component to the government curriculum. It
employs the best practices of problem and project-based learning
(PBL).
To learn more about UrbanPlan, download the UrbanPlan brochure and visit www.urbanplan.org.
If you are a ULI member interested in volunteering with UrbanPlan,
please read this summary of the program.
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