Education programmefor sustainable area development
UrbanPlan is an education programme in which secondary-school students gain hands-on insight into developing future-proof and sustainable neighbourhoods. New Economy is the professional facilitator of the UrbanPlan education programme in the Netherlands, developed by the Urban Land Institute.
About this project
Sector: education / sustainable area development. Client: Educatieve Projecten Nederland and the Urban Land Institute. New Economy is the professional facilitator of UrbanPlan in the Netherlands.
How UrbanPlan works
Participants take on a role in the private or public sector and, over the course of a day, redevelop a fictional neighbourhood.
During the exercise, participants face challenging problems, interests and trade-offs. At the end of the day there is a zoning plan, which is assessed by a professional jury of volunteers from the real-estate sector.
UrbanPlan in the Netherlands
UrbanPlan is an education programme of the Urban Land Institute that has been successful in the United States for years.
Since 2014 it has also run in the United Kingdom, and since 2020 Educatieve Projecten Nederland has been rolling out the programme in the Netherlands together with New Economy.
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UrbanPlan is aimed at secondary-school students who want to learn interactively about sustainable area development and the trade-offs involved in developing a neighbourhood.
New Economy is the professional facilitator of UrbanPlan in the Netherlands and guides the students through the programme.
UrbanPlan was developed by the Urban Land Institute and is rolled out in the Netherlands by Educatieve Projecten Nederland together with New Economy.
Frequently asked questions about UrbanPlan
In this project, UrbanPlan is an education programme in which secondary-school students interactively learn to develop future-proof, sustainable neighbourhoods.
In this project, UrbanPlan was developed by the Urban Land Institute, and New Economy is the professional facilitator in the Netherlands.
In this project, UrbanPlan is aimed at secondary-school students.
In this project, participants take on a role in the private or public sector and redevelop a fictional neighbourhood, facing challenging problems, interests and trade-offs.
In this project, participants take roles such as project developer, head of sustainability, neighbourhood representative, contractor or head of finance.
In this project, by the end of the day there is a zoning plan, which is assessed by a professional jury of volunteers from the real-estate sector.
In this project, UrbanPlan has run in the Netherlands since 2020, rolled out by Educatieve Projecten Nederland together with New Economy.
In this project, UrbanPlan has been successful in the United States for years and, since 2014, also runs in the United Kingdom.