Who is UrbanPlan For?

High School Students – 10th-12th graders in Economics, Government, and related courses.

University Students – Undergrad and grad students studying Real Estate, Urban Planning, or related fields.

Public Officials – Elected officials, appointed commission members, and local government staff.

Community Members – Engaged citizens and community board members.

Calling All Volunteers!

Trained volunteers serve in classrooms and workshops as Facilitators as the teams build their proposals or as members of a mock City Council for final presentations. They are tasked with challenging participants to think more critically about the UrbanPlan issues and the specific responsibilities of their “roles.”

Since the Dallas-Fort Worth district joined the UrbanPlan effort in 2005, it has facilitated the program in over 100 classes involving over 1,400 students. UrbanPlan volunteers have two roles:

–Facilitate teams of students to redevelop a hypothetical blighted area via a public-private partnership.

–Serve on a mock city councils to judge presentations and select a winning team at the end of the session.

All volunteers must first complete ULI’s online, on-demand 90-minute training in which they learn the intricacies of the exercise and then how best to communicate their real life experience to students in the classroom and community members. Once the one time training is completed, the time demand on the volunteers is flexible and self scheduled as the program is run at multiple times and locations each semester. **All volunteers must submit an UrbanPlan Application and volunteers must have 5 years of real estate experience.