Edutopia - October/November 2008 - (Page 51) Students at the Y-PLAN project create bonds between schools and communities through grassroots city planning. On JamesThewImages a sunny Saturday morning in the San Francisco Bay Area, two groups of high school juniors from nearby Emeryville and Richmond step from a school bus to check out an underused public space along the Berkeley waterfront—a running path laid out on a land⇒ll. The morning reconnaissance is part of Y-PLAN (Youth—Plan, Learn, Act, Now), a city planning program run by the University of California at Berkeley’s Center for Cities & Schools. As traf⇒c barrels along the nearby freeway, students glance around curiously. They are new to this patch of land, even though it’s relatively close to where many of them live. To help the two groups of students get to know one another, Y-PLAN coordinators ask them to give their names as well as something they appreciate about their own neighborhoods. A few mention the freshness of living by the water; others refer to the ability to walk to a grocery store or local basketball court. One young woman, toeing the ground, shrugs her shoulders and mumbles that she can’t think of anything she likes about the gritty section of Richmond where she lives. “I don’t feel safe there,” she says. Others nod knowingly. For inner-city kids who’ve grown up with poverty and crime, this sentiment is understandable— and not unusual. Because the idea of neighborhood has as many negatives as positives, many Y-PLAN students admit to approaching their local project assignments with initial skepticism. But after twelve weeks of working in teams with UC Berkeley mentors to gather a big-picture view of urban planning, including conducting surveys and site research, crafting proposals for two community centers in their respective neighborhoods, and presenting their ideas to a panel of urban-planning professionals, Y-PLAN participants had a new sense of possibilities. EDUTOPIA.ORG EDUTOPIA 51 http://www.EDUTOPIA.ORG
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