UrbanPlan Committee

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Students at MJW Investment's Santee Court

"Participating in UrbanPlan is enriching to my soul."
- Rebecca Martinez, Cuningham Group Architecture, P.A.

UrbanPlan is a simulation classroom exercise for high school students created by the Urban Land Institute. Students work in development teams to analyze and respond to a hypothetical "Request for Proposal" for the redevelopment of a specific urban area. Development teams compete to secure the rights from a fictitious city council made up of UrbanPlan volunteers. During the annual awards ceremony, the winning team is announced and presented with scholarships towards their college education.

Over the course of the exercise, local land use professionals interact with the students on a regular basis. As "facilitators" in the classroom, they challenge the students to think more critically about the UrbanPlan issues and the specific responsibilities of the students assigned roles as finance directors, marketing directors, city liaisons, neighborhood liasions, and site planners.

The UrbanPlan program is open to any high school class within the greater Los Angeles area, with a focus on the Los Angeles Unified School District. Most of the schools participating in the competition are drawn from the inner-city locations within LAUSD to best include students from low-to-moderate income families. This year's schools include: Kennedy, Cleveland, Reseda, Wilson, Blazers School Program, Crenshaw, and Discovery Charter Preparatory High Schools and Environmental Charter High School.

UrbanPlan 2007

• About the Program
• Team Winners
• Sponsors
• Photo Gallery

UrbanPlan 2006

• About the Program
• Awards Ceremony
• The Competition
• Team Winners
• Articles
• The Field Trip
• Sponsors
• Photo Gallery

UrbanPlan 2005

• What Students Are Saying
• Awards Ceremony
• The Competition
• Team Winners
• The Field Trip
• Sponsors
• Photo Gallery
• Article: Learning Outside of the Box, by Kathleen Flood

UrbanPlan 2004

• Photo Gallery

UrbanPlan 2003

• Article: Developers in Training, Wall Street Journal, Feb. 12, 2003
• Teaching Urban Planning to High Schoolers
  KPCC, Feb. 10, 2003
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ULI Los Angeles UrbanPlan Committee 2007

If you have questions about the UrbanPlan program, please contact John Quiter.