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community engagement
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the Fundred Project
Read more: the Fundred ProjectThe Fundred Dollar Bill Project, initiated by artist Mel Chin, is a collaborative art project aimed at raising awareness and mobilizing action against the environmental and health threat of lead contamination. It encourages individuals to create their own unique interpretations…
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826 Valencia
Read more: 826 Valencia826 Valencia is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting students ages six to eighteen with their creative and expository writing skills and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Their services are structured around the understanding that great leaps…
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Streets into Gardens
Read more: Streets into GardensDuring this time rent prices in the Lower East Side/ East Village were rising due to the presence of many community gardens. In response to this, then Mayor Giuliani decided to sell the 198 gardens in question. Streets into Gardens…
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Invincible: Detroit’s Homegrown, Hip-Hop Activism
Read more: Invincible: Detroit’s Homegrown, Hip-Hop ActivismInvincible: Detroit’s Homegrown, Hip-Hop Activism: Powerful, passionate, and politically charged rhymes that speak for marginalized people. by Shannan Stoll Ilana Weaver started listening to hip hop when she was seven, after her family moved from Israel to Ann Arbor, Mich.…
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Nowhereisland
Read more: NowhereislandNowhereisland was an island which journeyed from the High Arctic region of Svalbard to the south west coast of England in summer 2012. As it made this epic journey, it travelled through international waters, whereupon it became the world’s newest…
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Participatory Chinatown: Promoting Civic Engagement
Read more: Participatory Chinatown: Promoting Civic EngagementTaken from Boston Globe Article: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2010/05/06/chinatown_the_video_game/ WHILE PUBLIC participation is a hallmark of urban planning in Boston, it normally takes the form of long, often windy meetings. In the era of augmented-reality apps and Google Earth, planners need more creative…