What Is Zoning?

Envisioning Development

What Is Zoning?

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Public Access Design

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Ready, Set, Apply!

Technical Assistance

Ready, Set, Apply!

Welcome to Health Care!

Making Policy Public

Welcome to Health Care!

Rent Regulation Rights - San Francisco Edition

Making Policy Public

Rent Regulation Rights - San Francisco Edition

Trouble With Your Water Bill?

Public Access Design

Trouble With Your Water Bill?

About CUP

The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) is a nonprofit organization that uses the power of design and art to increase meaningful civic engagement particularly among underrepresented communities. CUP projects demystify the urban policy and planning issues that impact our communities, so that more individuals can better participate in shaping them.

We believe that increasing understanding of how these systems work is the first step to better and more diverse community participation.

CUP projects are collaborations of art and design professionals, community-based advocates and policymakers, and our staff. Together we take on complex issues—from the juvenile justice system to zoning law to food access—and break them down into simple, accessible, visual explanations.

The tools we create are used by organizers and educators all over New York City and beyond to help their constituents better advocate for their own community needs.

Website design: Linked by Air

Find out more about CUP through this short video from the Curry Stone Design Prize.


Engage to Change

Technical Assistance

Engage to Change

Record It. Report It!

Public Access Design

Record It. Report It!

Tenants' Rights to Repairs

Making Policy Public

Tenants' Rights to Repairs

Yours to Keep

Making Policy Public

Yours to Keep

Reclaim Your Worker Rights

Making Policy Public

Reclaim Your Worker Rights

I Heart East New York

Urban Investigations

I Heart East New York

What Is Affordable Housing?

Envisioning Development

What Is Affordable Housing?

Our Values, Our Voice, Our Vote

Making Policy Public

Our Values, Our Voice, Our Vote