Fast-Tracked

Urban Investigations

Fast-Tracked

Prison Profits: Who Pays The Price

City Studies

Prison Profits: Who Pays The Price

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Public Access Design

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Engage to Change

Technical Assistance

Engage to Change

Get It Back!

Public Access Design

Get It Back!

Keep Your Family's Home

Public Access Design

Keep Your Family's Home

Print Making Change

How do you change a public space, like a street? What does it take? Where do you start?

In the Spring of 2015, CUP teaching artist Douglas Paulson worked with students from the Municipal Art Society’s youth program Designing Change to investigate how to create change in Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood on Belmont Avenue, a four-block commercial strip with lots of storefronts. Students explored where to gather information, who to communicate an idea to, and how to work with city organizations and building or property owners.

Students interviewed elected officials, city agencies, and business owners on how to change public spaces in Brownsville or elsewhere in New York City. Students created silhouettes, drawings, and designed a poster that demonstrates the step by step process to make change to a public space.

Making Change debuted at the Paul Cooper Center, where students presented the poster and discussed their creative process.

Shelter Skelter

Urban Investigations

Shelter Skelter

Your Guide to Welfare in NYC

Making Policy Public

Your Guide to Welfare in NYC

Figuring Out Health Insurance

Making Policy Public

Figuring Out Health Insurance

Field Guide to Federalism

City Studies

Field Guide to Federalism

The Deciders

City Studies

The Deciders

Government in Plain Sight

City Studies

Government in Plain Sight

How Can I Improve My Park?

Making Policy Public

How Can I Improve My Park?

Show Me the Money!

City Studies

Show Me the Money!