Mean Streets

City Studies

Mean Streets

It's Not Just in Our Heads

Urban Investigations

It's Not Just in Our Heads

Get It Back!

Public Access Design

Get It Back!

What's On Your Plate?

City Studies

What's On Your Plate?

Fast Trash

City Studies

Fast Trash

Pass It On!

Making Policy Public

Pass It On!

Print Free For All?

On April 12, 2017, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a free college tuition bill into law. The Excelsior Scholarship makes the City and State Universities of New York tuition-free, but only for qualifying students. Students that are part time, undocumented, or whose families make over $125,000 per year are not eligible. Should college be free for everyone? 

In the winter of 2018, CUP collaborated with Teaching Artist Gabe Gordon and Yadira Echevarria’s internship class at the international Community High School (ICHS) in the Bronx to find out. To investigate, students got out of the classroom and into the realm of higher education to survey educators and school staff on the value of a degree and the possible hidden costs of education. What are the different types of academic degrees? How much does higher education actually cost? Who decides?

Students created the newspaper Free For All? to teach others what they learned and to help students navigate their higher education options. 

Vendor Power!

Making Policy Public

Vendor Power!

Is Your Landlord Using Construction to Harass You?

Technical Assistance

Is Your Landlord Using Construction to Harass You?

Your Guide to Welfare in NYC

Making Policy Public

Making the Grade

Urban Investigations

Making the Grade

Sign Up!

Public Access Design

Sign Up!

Know Your Lines

Making Policy Public

Know Your Lines

Dick & Rick: A Visual Primer for Social Impact Design

Technical Assistance

Dick & Rick: A Visual Primer for Social Impact Design

Reclaim Your Worker Rights

Making Policy Public

Reclaim Your Worker Rights