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‘Modern Victory Gardens may ease urban hunger’
Metro
February 12, 2008
“This lecture is at once hopeful and rooted in the nitty-gritty of food politics”
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‘Chew on this’
Visualizing Information for Advocacy
January 01, 2008
“The design process itself can be as illuminating as the final product.”
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‘CUP Press Clippings’
various publications
November 02, 2007
“Educational projects about places and how they change”
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‘Sunset Park Holds First Neighborhood Summit’
El Barrio
September 26, 2007
“Rosten Woo, director of the Center for Urban Pedagogy, provided a concise and informative overview of the zoning process”
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‘Power to the People’
Archined
June 15, 2007
“CUP wants to make young people not only aware of urban processes, but also incite them to active participation.”
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‘Proof That Things Are People Too (Well Almost)’
New York Times
May 18, 2007
“Architectural objects include the Center for Urban Pedagogy's proposals for 'Jamaica's Future' (that's Jamaica, Queens), among them a memorial for Jam Master Jay. ”
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‘We are (or aren’t) alone’
metrotimes
March 14, 2007
“Does everything in Detroit have to become art to become real?”
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‘Lot-Ek Injects New Life Into Shipping Containers’
eOculus
February 23, 2007
“Lot-ek's January 30th presentation - part of CUP's People and Buildings event series - complemented a lecture delivered by the economist Marc Levinson recounting the evolution of the modern shipping container. ”
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‘Spread the Word’
Residential Architect
February 06, 2007
“Architects have some explaining to do.”
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‘Shrinking Cities: Welcome to Conversation’
The Detroiter
February 01, 2007
“Shrinking Cities is out to make you listen, to get you talking.”
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‘Red Lines, Death Vows, Foreclosures’
Plan 68
January 01, 2007
“art project to focus on real estate finance”
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‘Red Lines, Death Vows’
MIT news office
December 20, 2006
“What if, rather than building an architectural project as laid out in the plans, a builder built the building code instead?”
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‘The City as School’
ARQ Chile
December 01, 2006
“With instruments of institutional critique, relational aesthetics, and activism, CUP's projects aim to demystify the opaque.”
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‘Designing For Urban Education and Activism’
DESIGNER/builder
December 01, 2006
“The organization is asking - and trying to answer - questions about democracy, civic participation, and social justice.”
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‘Estudio Straddles Border’
eOculus
November 15, 2006
“Estudio Teddy Cruz has pioneered new approaches to housing and community planning that exploit modular building and draw insipiration from the public space commonly found in Tijuana.”
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‘Laboratory Knoxville’
Knoxville Metro Pulse
November 02, 2006
“In and out of the classroom, urban-design scholars reconsider Knoxville.”
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‘However Unspectacular: The New Suburbanism’
Shrinking Cities: Interventions
November 01, 2006
“Detroit is not a shrinking city.”
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‘A Tutorial on the Streets’
MetropolisMag.com
August 15, 2006
“Preserving a place concerns not only its buildings but also its culture”
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‘Performative Critical Pedagogy as a Space for In-between Translation (Towards the Production of Insurgent Cultural Politics)’
Dialogical Practices
July 12, 2006
“...represented a range of different voices and experiences, instead of filtering them, by colliding with them and considering them at the representative level itself...”
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‘The City Without a Ghetto’
Design Like You Give a Damn
May 01, 2006
“If we as designers want to effectively relate to politics, what should we take from the example of Pruitt Igoe?”
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‘Mind the Gap review’
flavorpill
March 28, 2006
“...standouts include the Center for Urban Pedagogy, which unearth's Fulton Mall's unique urban commerce of gold dental caps and matzoh balls...”
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‘The Space Between’
The Brian Lehrer Show
March 05, 2006
“Can you suggest a place where artists should move?”
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‘Indirect Action: Questioning Neo-Situationism’
artwurl.org
March 05, 2006
“The unpretentious rigor of CUP's work points beyond neo-situationist rhetorics of immediacy toward what might be called a poltics of indirect action.”
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‘Mall of Shame?’
Time Out New York
October 06, 2005
“We're trying to adopt a celebratory tone for a street that doesn't receive the nostalgia of a lot of historic preservation.”
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‘Fulton Mall Revisited’
The Architect’s Newspaper
September 21, 2005
“The dominant perception of Fulton Mall is that it's a space in decline when by an objective standard, it is one of the most successful in the city.”
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‘Big Plans & Little People’
Lotus International
July 01, 2005
“The connection between everyday life and the built environment is not always obvious.”
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‘Designer: Damon Rich’
The MacDowell Colony Newsletter
July 01, 2005
“There's this joke my organization has about how, at one of our events, ideally an architect would spill his wine onto an activist, the activist would step on the shoe of a congress person, and so on until the entire space was mobilized.”
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‘However Unspectacular – The New Suburbanism’
archplus
May 01, 2005
“Aus diesem Grund erarbeiten wir Lehrmaterial für Schulen in Detroit...”
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‘New in Art: Just Take The 7 Train’
New York Times
November 12, 2004
“The collective called Center for Urban Pedagogy picks up Mr. Oguibe's guardedly utopian thread by planting models for urban architecture among footwear displays in Sneaker Mart.”
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‘Urban Studies’
Metropolis
August 01, 2004
“...to create products that aren't just cool to designers but are also respected by sociologists and political activists, and are actually useful.”
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‘Critics Choice: Architecture’
BOMB
April 01, 2004
“The exhibition also lifted the ideological fog surrounding the complex political processes that change our urban environment...”
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‘Chicago Without a Ghetto’
Chicago Reader
March 26, 2004
“A new exhibit in Rogers Park takes another look at the history, present and possible futures of public and affordable housing in Chicago and New York City.”
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‘Learning to Teach’
Architecture
February 01, 2004
“Architecture's educational potentials are threatened not by philistine educators or vanishing budgets, but by design culture itself.”
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‘Fresh Dialogue: New Voices in Graphic Design’
Princeton Architectural Press
January 01, 2004
“Code City was a Web site about the history and politics of public housing in New York City's five boroughs.”
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‘Show Me That Funky Stuff’
New Youth Connections
March 01, 2003
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‘Students Studying New York Garbage Create Documentary, Fresh Kills Design’
Solid Waste Report
June 07, 2002
“Garbage Problems examines the state of waste management in New York City since the landfill closed and tries to answer the question, 'Where will all the garbage go?'”
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‘Civic Boosters: Q&A with Damon Rich’
Metropolis
February 01, 2002
“With lively exhibitions and a tongue-in-cheek walking tour, the Center for Urban Pedagogy urges individuals to actively shape their city.”
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‘Building Codes on the Wall’
Oculus
October 01, 2001
“The exhibition also put a human face on the issues - lots of human faces...”
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‘Deciphering the City’s Hidden Code’
The Village Voice
August 28, 2001
“We wanted to disseminate information and to provide a sense that these things are in fact knowable. This is about the whole history of political struggle that has changed the built environment.”
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‘By Design’
NYLON
May 01, 2001
“CUP doesn't just want Brooklynites to contemplate deli demographics. They want them to hang out at community board meetings and write their councilmember.”
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