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Your Truth, Your Rights

Public Access Design

Your Truth, Your Rights

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Making Policy Public

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Soak It Up!

City Studies

Soak It Up!

Soda Census

City Studies

Soda Census

Rent Regulation Rights

Making Policy Public

Rent Regulation Rights

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.

Pay Dirt

City Studies

Pay Dirt

My ID

City Studies

My ID

Is Suspension The Solution?

City Studies

Is Suspension The Solution?

The Newtown Creek BOA

Technical Assistance

The Newtown Creek BOA

Prison Profits: Who Pays The Price

City Studies

Prison Profits: Who Pays The Price

What Is Zoning?

Envisioning Development

What Is Zoning?

Seeking Sanctuary

Urban Investigations

Seeking Sanctuary

Stand Clear of the Rising Fares

Urban Investigations

Stand Clear of the Rising Fares