Is Your Neighborhood Getting Too Expensive?

Technical Assistance

Is Your Neighborhood Getting Too Expensive?

A Fair Chance

Making Policy Public

A Fair Chance

New School on the Block

City Studies

New School on the Block

Record It. Report It!

Public Access Design

Record It. Report It!

Pass It On!

Making Policy Public

Pass It On!

Dick & Rick: A Visual Primer for Social Impact Design

Technical Assistance

Dick & Rick: A Visual Primer for Social Impact Design

2011

‘Policy for People poster-style’

Public Policy Lab

November, 10, 2011

The poster speaks to the audience for whom the information is most important — those who are under 18!

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‘Where Does Your (Convenience Store) Food Come From?’

Gilt Taste

August, 31, 2011

These students take the opportunity to really explore how this little corner of the city works… and what results is one of the smartest, most nuanced, and most fun documents on the subject we’ve ever seen.

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‘Who Is Shaping New York’s Subway Redevelopment?’

psfk

August, 15, 2011

The project juxtaposes the fact that such a construction project creates jobs but there is a suspicious absence of ‘the public’ in MTA’s decisions.

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‘Fast-Tracked: Who Decides Where the Subway Goes?’

Urban Omnibus

August, 10, 2011

The group investigated how transportation planning works by talking to stakeholders, researching policy and financing, and pounding the pavement.

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‘We Seriously Love The Internet is Serious Business’

Detroit Digital Justice Coalition zine #3

June, 30, 2011

The film is instrumental in engaging people in disenfranchised communities who have been previously intimidated by the Internet. It is understandable by ANYONE from age 8 to 80.

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‘Know Your Lines’

Art Threat

May, 11, 2011

Who is drawing the lines? What does the shape of a district mean? And what does a good redistricting process look like? These are precisely the questions being tackled in Know Your Lines.

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‘Visualizing the Dangers of Toxic Brownfields’

The Dirt

April, 20, 2011

Middle school students went out and mapped the empty lots and then started investigating [them].

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The Newtown Creek BOA

Technical Assistance

The Newtown Creek BOA

The Public School Avengers

Urban Investigations

The Public School Avengers

Common Cents

City Studies

Common Cents

Tenants' Rights to Repairs

Making Policy Public

Tenants' Rights to Repairs

Share, Where?

Urban Investigations

Share, Where?

Power Trip

Urban Investigations

Power Trip

Not on Our Watch!

Making Policy Public

Not on Our Watch!

Participatory Budgeting

Technical Assistance

Participatory Budgeting