VeloCity

Our Mission

VeloCity’s mission is to introduce high school students from diverse, underserved communities to urban planning and design concepts, community involvement opportunities, and career options in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning and design. Through cycling, VeloCity’s participants will experience a safe, healthy, and sustainable way to explore the City’s built environment and access its’ open spaces.

Our Purpose

Greater diversity amongst the planning and design professions is needed to inform decisions about how our communities are preserved, developed, and maintained. Access to information and education about the planning and design processes can achieve greater diversity in these fields. This information is particularly powerful when introduced to high school students from diverse, underserved communities. VeloCity’s over arching goal is to increase diversity in the planning and design professions by raising the awareness of these fields amongst youth through cycling.

How We Roll

The idea for Velo City came to us last summer after several conversation-filled bike rides led us to share our experiences as women of color in the urban planning and design professions. Acutely aware of the need for greater diversity in our fields, we have set out to make this change by starting a non-profit initiative that brings awareness of planning and design to diverse communities through the medium of cycling. Thus Velo City’s mission is to introduce youth from underserved communities to urban planning and design concepts, community involvement opportunities, and career options in architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning/design. Through cycling, Velo City’s participants will experience a safe, healthy, and sustainable way to explore the City’s built environment and access its’ open spaces. As an organization, our over arching goal is to increase diversity in the planning and design professions by raising the awareness of these fields.