--- title: Five Best: How to Design Cities for Children description: How to design cities for children, don’t be fooled by the pay increases being attributed to tax reform and more. canonical: https://time.com/5137239/how-to-design-cities-for-children/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-07T17:00:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:08.796Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How to Design Cities for Children og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/5137239/how-to-design-cities-for-children/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How to Design Cities for Children twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How to Design Cities for Children by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 7, 2018 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 7, 2018 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**How to design cities for children.**](https://www.citylab.com/design/2018/02/how-to-design-cities-for-children/552086/) By Mimi Kirk in _Citylab_ **2\.** [**Don’t be fooled by the pay increases being attributed to tax reform. Corporations can do better.**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dont-let-pay-increases-coming-out-of-tax-reform-fool-you/2018/02/06/1271905a-06a6-11e8-94e8-e8b8600ade23%5Fstory.html?utm%5Fterm=.acc3543b452d) By Rick Wartzman and William Lazonick in the _Washington Post_ **3\.** [**Is there a smarter way to think about sexual assault on campus?**](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/is-there-a-smarter-way-to-think-about-sexual-assault-on-campus) By Jia Tolentino in the _New Yorker_ **4\.** [**This video game might help you train your ears to hear better.**](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-video-game-can-help-with-hearing-loss-180968032/) By Dana Boebinger at _Smithsonian_ **5\.** [**America may finally be ready to fix our crumbling infrastructure — but the timing couldn’t be worse.**](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/america-may-finally-be-ready-to-fix-its-infrastructure-too-bad-the-timing-stinks/) By Evan Horowitz at _FiveThirtyEight_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best: How to Design Cities for Children ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5137239/how-to-design-cities-for-children/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5137239/how-to-design-cities-for-children/"},"headline":"How to Design Cities for Children","datePublished":"2018-02-07T17:00:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:08.796Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5137239/how-to-design-cities-for-children/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Sexual Assault","Innovation","Video Games","Infrastructure","cities","Tax Reform"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5137239/how-to-design-cities-for-children/","name":"How to Design Cities for Children"}}]}] ```