Archive - Mini Cities

Mini Cities Are What Schools Were Always Supposed to Be

A response to David Deutsch’s “Are schools inherently coercive?” (Taking Children Seriously 25, 1998)

Mar 27 • Daniel Fetz

We Are Building a New City

A visionary look at the future of education, or a study of the self-evident that is anything but self-evident: three weeks in Mini-Munich.

Mar 25

Why Mini-Munich Has Appeal Across the Political Spectrum

Mini-Munich has been partially funded by the city of Munich since 1979.

Mar 19 • Daniel Fetz

What is minicities.org?

Most people in the English-speaking world have never heard of a miniature city: a temporary city run by children, with its own currency, jobs…

Mar 16 • Daniel Fetz

Mini Cities Should Not Be Islands

How a miniature city can interact with the adult world around it, and why it must if it aspires to be more than just a summer program.

Mar 13 • Daniel Fetz

Mini-Munich Succeeds Where KidZania Fails

Both are miniature cities for children. Only one of them resembles an actual city.

Mar 11 • Daniel Fetz

February 2026

Serious Play: Mini-Munich, Something More Than Children’s Entertainment

Feb 26

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