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How Can I Improve My Park?

Making Policy Public

How Can I Improve My Park?

Get Support in Housing Court

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Public Access Design

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Not on Our Watch!

Making Policy Public

Not on Our Watch!

Your School, Your Choice!

Making Policy Public

Your School, Your Choice!

‘The Center for Urban Pedagogy clarifies the juvenile justice system’

Core77

June, 24, 2010

The latest poster from the Center for Urban Pedagogy’s Making Policy Public series elucidates the juvenile justice system in one easy-to-read graphic novel 

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‘The Omnibus Roundup’

Urban Omnibus

May, 21, 2010

How often do you see an educational video about water supply that cuts together interviews with representatives from the DEP, claymation cavemen and Chamillionaire’s “Ridin’ Dirty?”

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‘The Water Underground’

Design Observer

May, 20, 2010

The CUP staff and student researchers and videographers criss-crossed the five boroughs and assembled a multi-vocal primer on some essential urban infrastructure.

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‘Why Design Now?’

Cooper Hewitt

May, 13, 2010

Designed in an engaging, accessible style, Vendor Power! aims to help these urban entrepreneurs avoid tickets, understand their rights, and collectively advocate for policy reforms.

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‘Whoosh! The Trash Can as a Pneumatic Tube’

The New York Times

April, 9, 2010

Underneath the 40-block strip of land between Queens and Manhattan known as Roosevelt Island is a complex system of pneumatic tubes that connects the island’s 12,000 or so residents. But it’s not mail that’s hurtling through them at at 30 miles an hour. It’s garbage.

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CUP Tools Up’

Architect’s Newspaper

March, 2, 2010

CUP helps us deconstruct our environment in order to advocate for social justice”

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‘2010 Winners – Show Your Impact Contest’

Show Your Impact Contest

January, 14, 2010

I Heart East New York is both a teaching tool and a teaching method.

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‘Feeding the Bronx’

Edible Geography

January, 12, 2010

CUP has created an awesome video that explores some of the economic and consumer forces that create the South Bronx foodscape.

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‘Unraveling the Mystery of Affordable Housing’

The New York Times

January, 8, 2010

“It really helped people break past the jargon and the acronyms and help people understand what affordable housing is.” 

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‘Bodega Down Bronx’

Design Observer

January, 7, 2010

Like all CUP projects Bodega Down Bronx is inspired by the conviction that cities and their complex systems and politics can be made legible and transparent.

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‘A User’s Guide to the City Pt. 2: Street Vendor Guide’

BLDG BLOG

December, 18, 2009

[The poster uses] design skills to assemble legible, economically accessible, and legally useful guides to the urban environment. 

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‘There’s an App for That’

Colorlines

December, 7, 2009

The Toolkit translates abstract concepts and language into straightforward activities and physical objects that will hopefully engage folks who otherwise wouldn’t participate.

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Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Making Policy Public

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Rent Regulation Rights - San Francisco Edition

Making Policy Public

Rent Regulation Rights - San Francisco Edition

From Shelter to Apartment

Making Policy Public

From Shelter to Apartment

Participatory Budgeting

Technical Assistance

Participatory Budgeting

Blunt Conversations

Urban Investigations

Blunt Conversations

Soda Census

City Studies

Soda Census

Innocent Until Proven Risky

Making Policy Public

Innocent Until Proven Risky

Space Jam

Urban Investigations

Space Jam