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Make It Visible

Mapping Main Street: Flushing, Queens

Mapping Main Street heads to Flushing for audio-video explorations of Main St. produced by neighborhood students, providing a local snapshot of the nation-wide project.

Museum of the Phantom City

Irene Cheng and Brett Snyder share the inspiration behind their iPhone app and pose questions sparked by their research. Read their story and then go tour the unbuilt city.

A New OASIS for New York

Steven Romalewski, one of the forces behind the development of the Open Accessible Space Information System, takes us on a tour of the online mapping resource's version 2.0.

The Brooklyn Typology Project

Artist and urban planner Neil Freeman reflects on ways web-based art practice, urban planning data and tireless neighborhood exploration can inform each other, using his own work as a case study.

Making Policy Public: Predatory Equity

Glen Cummings shares the process of creating the Predatory Equity Survival Guide.

Safari 7

Explore ecosystems along the 7 train, from Times Square to Flushing Meadows, with this self-guided podcast tour conceived by Glen Cummings, Janette Kim and Kate Orff.

Making Policy Public: Vendor Power!

Candy Chang shares the process of working with the Center for Urban Pedagogy and the Street Vendor Project to demystify the regulations of street vending in New York City.

Who takes care of New York?

STEW-MAP plots the experience of more than 600 caretaker groups ranging in size and scope from informal block associations to national membership organizations.

 

Brooklyn at Eye Level

The theater company The Civilians has investigated all viewpoints on the Atlantic Yards development proposal as an inroad to broader urban issues of home and neighborhood change.

Post-it Notes for Neighbors

With Post-it Notes for Neighbors, Candy Chang playfully calls attention to the commodification of information exchange in public space and calls citizen-designers to action.