Maggie is a student at City-as-School.

Maggie is a student at City-as-School.

Maggie Acevedo has worked on The Water Underground

Jason Anderson received his M.Arch from Princeton University’s School of Architecture. He recently won a Luce Scholarship to spend a year in Beijin…

Jason Anderson received his M.Arch from Princeton University’s School of Architecture. He recently won a Luce Scholarship to spend a year in Beijing, China, working on urban architecture projects and teaching.

Jason Anderson has worked on Building Codes, Building Codes, Coding Communities, Garbage Problems, The Programmable City, Governors Island Points of Interest, Hell's Kitchen South: Developing Strategies, Spacebombing / Don't mess with this city!, Code City

Ruben is a student at City-as-School.

Ruben is a student at City-as-School.

Ruben Arroyo has worked on The Water Underground

Danny Aviles has worked on The Water Underground

Victor Bach has worked on PHTV: What's up with public housing?

Francisca Benitez (born Chile 1974) is a New York based artist and retired architect. She has been involved with CUP since 2001, when her first vid…

Francisca Benitez (born Chile 1974) is a New York based artist and retired architect. She has been involved with CUP since 2001, when her first video was featured in Building Codes: The Programmable City at Storefront for Art and Architecture. Since then, she has shown her work at Centre de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona in Spain, Exit Art in New York, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Santiago, Chile, and Futura in Prague, to name a few. Francisca studied architecture at the University of Chile, art at the MFA program at Hunter College in New York (currently) and at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris. She has collaborated with countless artists, organizations and journals including Quaderns (Spain), ARQ (Chile), the International Center for Urban Ecology (ICUE, Detroit), and the New York Housing Authority. She currently teaches in our program, in NYCHA community centers and sings with the band Nutria.

Francisca Benitez has worked on The Programmable City, Building Codes, The Subsidized Landscape, Schoolyard Visions, Green Information Center

AJ Blandford is a bi-coastal designer/builder for both the imaginary and real worlds. In addition to her work with CUP she also collaborates regula…

AJ Blandford is a bi-coastal designer/builder for both the imaginary and real worlds. In addition to her work with CUP she also collaborates regularly with the dance/performance duo RobbinsChilds.

AJ Blandford has worked on The City without a Ghetto, The Center for Critical Skills, The Subsidized Landscape

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Betty "Coqui" Brassell has worked on PHTV: What's up with public housing?

Joshua Breitbart is the Communications Director for Media Tank in Philadelphia. He has been an organizer of grassroots media since co-founding Broo…

Joshua Breitbart is the Communications Director for Media Tank in Philadelphia. He has been an organizer of grassroots media since co-founding Brooklyn’s Rooftop Films in 1998. He was the consulting editor for Clamor Magazine from 2001 to 2005 and has worked with many local Indymedia Centers. Josh also serves on the board of directors of Allied Media Projects and the Lela Breitbart Memorial Fund, which supports young women’s activism.

Mark Brenner is the director of Labor Notes, a 29 year old project dedicated to putting the movement back in the labor movement. In addition to wri…

Mark Brenner is the director of Labor Notes, a 29 year old project dedicated to putting the movement back in the labor movement. In addition to writing for Labor Notes magazine his work has also appeared in the Washington Spectator, Counterpunch, Metro Times, Black Commentator, Z Magazine, and Monthly Review. Before joining the staff at Labor Notes, Mark spent a decade working with living wage campaigns around the country, and is co-author of the forthcoming book A Measure of Fairness about the economic impact of living wage ordinances. He is also a staff economist with the Real Cost of Prisons Project, specializing in the social and economic costs of the War on Drugs.

Mark Brenner has worked on The Cargo Chain

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Stella Bugbee is a creative director specializing in identity and publication design. Studio projects might range from logos, web sites and books, ...

Stella Bugbee is a creative director specializing in identity and publication design. Studio projects might range from logos, web sites and books, to self-published projects and collaborations. In addition to running her studio she teaches Advanced Publication Design to seniors in the degree program at Parsons School of Design. During 2002-2004 she served on the Executive Board of the New York AIGA.
Prior to founding a company of her own in the summer of 2005, Stella founded Honest with Cary Murnion and Jon Milott while the three were attending Parsons School of Design. After five years at Honest, she left to work for The New York Times Magazine and then went on to be a Design Director with the Brand Integration Group at Ogilvy and Mather.
Stella’s work has been featured in Print, Res, How, Step, Black Book, Nylon and Eye, and she was featured in the book “Fresh Dialogue 3,” in addition to being one of the participants in the yearly event of the same name.

Stella Bugbee has worked on Building Codes, Important Housing Rights, The Programmable City, Code City

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Lisa Burriss began with GOLES as the PHROLES organizer in June 2005. She has been a life-long resident of Public Housing and began working with PH…

Lisa Burriss began with GOLES as the PHROLES organizer in June 2005. She has been a life-long resident of Public Housing and began working with PHROLES as a steering committee member, eventually becoming the co-chair of the committee. Lisa graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from New Paltz College in 2003 and since has dedicated herself to creating social change. After college, Lisa worked teaching independent living skills to aging out foster children. She is a member of the United Nations Youth Council and co-founded Cultural Unity an organization in New Paltz dedicated to increasing cultural awareness and creating unity through education. Her organizing experience, incredible passion to create change, and first hand knowledge of public housing issues have prepared her for the challenges of organizing around public housing issues. She is bilingual in English and Spanish.

Lisa Burris has worked on PHTV: What's up with public housing?

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Michael Cataldi was born in 1982 in Philadelphia, received a Bachelors in fine arts degree at the Maryland Institute College of art in 2004. After …

Michael Cataldi was born in 1982 in Philadelphia, received a Bachelors in fine arts degree at the Maryland Institute College of art in 2004. After moving to New York Michael Cataldi attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Artist in the Marketplace programs in 2005. His work has been shown at Reobling Hall, ABC No Rio, and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Current Space in Baltimore, and Curators Office in Washington DC.

Michael Cataldi has worked on The Nomadic Classroom, Alternative Urban Perspectives

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Nicole Clare has worked on Spacebombing / Don't mess with this city!

Sarah Cole has worked on The Subsidized Landscape

Bryan Collins has worked on Code City

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Zoë Coombes is from Toronto. Her and her partner Francisco David Boira, are now 100% commited to the creation of software-driven design at the…

Zoë Coombes is from Toronto. Her and her partner Francisco David Boira, are now 100% commited to the creation of software-driven design at their Brooklyn-based business, Commonwealth.

Zoe Coombes has worked on The City without a Ghetto, The Subsidized Landscape, Garbage Problems

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Meghann Curtis is a graduate student at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs where she studies, among o…

Meghann Curtis is a graduate student at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs where she studies, among other things, urban development in developing nations. After graduating from Vassar College, Meghann worked as an urban planner for the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development in their divisions of housing finance and large scale development. She later went on to serve as Policy Director for New York City Council Member David Yassky, where she was intimately involved in the redevelopment plan for the Greenpoint-Williamsburg waterfront. Just before returning to school Meghann worked as a journalist for the South African Broadcast Corporation in Johannesburg, South Africa. She plans to return overseas this summer to work for the United States Agency for International Development in Indonesia with their Aceh Reconstruction and Recovery Unit.

Meghann Curtis has worked on The Subsidized Landscape

Daniel D’Oca is an urban planner. In 2002, he received a Master in Urban Planning degree from the Harvard Design School. He is a principal of Inter…

Daniel D’Oca is an urban planner. In 2002, he received a Master in Urban Planning degree from the Harvard Design School. He is a principal of Interboro. In the past, he has worked as a planner for the New York City Department of City Planning, sLab Architects, and a number of other firms. He has organized and participated in several lectures and exhibitions, including “Tourisms: Conversations About the Consumption of Place,” a Harvard symposium that featured several prominent architects, planners, and academics. He is co-founder and curator of “Engaging the City: the Accompanied Library Lectures on Urbanism.” He has a BA in philosophy from Bard College.

Daniel D'Oca has worked on Urban Renewal Activity Tables, The City without a Ghetto, However Unspectacular: A New Suburbanism

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Enida Davis has worked on PHTV: What's up with public housing?

Leigh Davis is an artist residing in Montreal.

Leigh Davis is an artist residing in Montreal.

Leigh Davis has worked on The City without a Ghetto, Values & Variety: Shopping on Fulton Street

Chris Dierks has worked on The Subsidized Landscape, Spacebombing / Don't mess with this city!

Mari Fujita is trained as an architect. She is currently researching cultural and design practice in settlement-formation in disaster areas. As a f…

Mari Fujita is trained as an architect. She is currently researching cultural and design practice in settlement-formation in disaster areas. As a founding member of SpaceAgency, Mari is also involved with projects that “make space for knowledge and discussion of architecture in the public realm”.

Mari Fujita has worked on Building Codes, The Programmable City

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Naoki Fujita has worked on Abuse of Power: The SPURA Story, The Water Underground

Judith Goldiner has worked on PHTV: What's up with public housing?

Kenneth Haller is an interaction designer, holding an MPS in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University and a B.A. in Political Scienc…

Kenneth Haller is an interaction designer, holding an MPS in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan. He is interested in photography, communicating visually as well as creating ubiquitous computer interactions.

Ken Haller has worked on The Subsidized Landscape

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Adriene Holder has worked on PHTV: What's up with public housing?

Wennie Huang is a painter, printmaker and performance / installation artist who has exhibited her work at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Chicago Cul…

Wennie Huang is a painter, printmaker and performance / installation artist who has exhibited her work at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Chicago Cultural Center, Detroit Artist’s Market, Korean Cultural Center, Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute, Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, International Print Center, Wave Hill, and Westchester Arts Exchange, as well as in group exhibitions in Texas, California, Pennsylvania, Argentina and Japan. She holds a BFA from Pratt Institute, and an MFA from the University of Michigan’s School of Art & Design. She has participated in residencies at Sculpture Space, Lower East Side Printshop, Dieu Donne Papermill, and the Ragdale Foundation, and she is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts. She has recently been awarded a commission through Percent for Art for the creation of permanent public art at a new elementary/middle school in the Inwood neighborhood of upper Manhattan. Huang teaches at the 92nd St. Y., Pratt Institute, and The College of New Rochelle. Freedom & Incarceration is her first CUP project.

Wennie Huang has worked on Freedom and Incarceration

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Rayna Huber Erlich has worked on Entry Sequence

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Edwin is a map-specialist.

Edwin is a map-specialist.

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Renee Johnson lives in the Borough of Queens. She is self-employed. She takes care of children, which she has been doing for about nineteen years. ...

Renee Johnson lives in the Borough of Queens. She is self-employed. She takes care of children, which she has been doing for about nineteen years. Her interests include jazz, poetry, dancing, and hiking.

Renee Johnson has worked on Big up, Jamaica!

Sean has worked on The Water Underground

Sean has worked on The Water Underground

Sean Kelleher has worked on The Water Underground

Elizabeth Knafo has worked on Knoxville: Building Communities

André Knights is an internship coordinator at City-as-School High School, an alternative public school in Lower Manhattan.

André Knights is an internship coordinator at City-as-School High School, an alternative public school in Lower Manhattan.

André Knights has worked on Building Codes, Garbage Problems, Public Housing 101

Prem Krishnamurthy is a principle of the graphic design studio Project Projects and teaches design at the University of Connecticut.

Prem Krishnamurthy is a principle of the graphic design studio Project Projects and teaches design at the University of Connecticut.

Prem Krishnamurthy has worked on Gautreaux v. Urban Renewal, The City without a Ghetto

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Adrian has worked on The Water Underground

Adrian has worked on The Water Underground

Adrian Lau has worked on The Water Underground

Beth has been engaged in the fields of architecture, politics, and development for several years in a several different iterations. She is curren…

Beth has been engaged in the fields of architecture, politics, and development for several years in a several different iterations. She is currently doing development for Urban Green Builders, a firm that develops environmentallly sustainable, urban in-fill projects in underserved areas. She not-so-secretly aspires to surround herself full-time with fresh-baked goods and culinary delights.

Beth Lieberman has worked on Urban Renewal Activity Tables, The City without a Ghetto

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Saby Malary has worked on The Connection between Abandoned Buildings and Homeless People

Amanda was a CUP Teaching Artist in the spring of 2006.

Amanda was a CUP Teaching Artist in the spring of 2006.

Amanda Matles has worked on Chew On This

Yates Mckee is a critic and Ph.D. student in the Department of Art History, Columbia University. His current project is entitled “Art and the Ends …

Yates Mckee is a critic and Ph.D. student in the Department of Art History, Columbia University. His current project is entitled “Art and the Ends of Environmentalism: From Biosphere to the Right to Survival.”

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Andrea Meller has worked on PHTV: What's up with public housing?, Garbage Problems, Public Housing 101, The Programmable City, The City without a Ghetto, The Subsidized Landscape

Adam Michaels is a New York City-based graphic designer.

Adam Michaels is a New York City-based graphic designer.

Adam Michaels has worked on Values & Variety: Shopping on Fulton Street

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Lize Mogel is an artist who makes maps, distributing and inserting her projects into urban public space. She has produced site-specific cartographi…

Lize Mogel is an artist who makes maps, distributing and inserting her projects into urban public space. She has produced site-specific cartographic projects for transit shelters in Los Angeles and for former World’s Fair sites in North America. Lize has also worked with the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest and the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Los Angeles.
As a fundraiser, she was Grants Officer at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles from 2002-2004, where she was responsible for foundation and government giving. She works as a grants consultant for the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT and Good Old Lower East Side, among others.
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Lize Mogel has worked on Mind the Gap, Big up, Jamaica!, Knoxville: Building Communities

Valeria, a native New Yorker, coordinates the execution of design and education projects about the city’s inner workings as CUP's Program Manag…

Valeria, a native New Yorker, coordinates the execution of design and education projects about the city’s inner workings as CUP's Program Manager. She comes from a background in visual studies and film and architectural theory with a degree from Brown University in Modern Culture and Media (magna cum laude, 2004). In addition to working many years in the non-profit sector, she is an independent film curator specializing in scientific films. Valeria is also on pest-control patrol in the CUP office.

Valeria Mogilevich has worked on Knoxville: Building Communities, The Water Underground, Green Information Center, Tagging the Social Contract, Prison City Comix, Temporary Showroom, People and Buildings, Freedom and Incarceration, Making Policy Public

Chris Molinski has worked on Knoxville: Building Communities

Jennifer Monzon has worked on PHTV: What's up with public housing?

Armando Morales has worked on PHTV: What's up with public housing?

Oliver Neumann has worked on Building Codes, The Programmable City

Kim has worked on The Water Underground

Kim has worked on The Water Underground

Kim Nuñez has worked on The Water Underground

Kentaro Okuda is an interaction designer. He holds an MPS in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University. . He is currently the Directo…

Kentaro Okuda is an interaction designer. He holds an MPS in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University. . He is currently the Director of Design at SGF Associates in New York where he develops innovative lighting systems using LED and glass fiber optics. He is interested in network technology and interaction design with tangible objects.

Kentaro Okuda has worked on The Subsidized Landscape

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Tony is a longshore worker in the Port of NY-NJ. He also serves as the Secretary-Treasurer of ILA Local 1588 and Co-Chair of the Longshore Workers’...

Tony is a longshore worker in the Port of NY-NJ. He also serves as the Secretary-Treasurer of ILA Local 1588 and Co-Chair of the Longshore Workers’ Coalition.

Tony Perlstein has worked on The Cargo Chain

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Jared has worked on The Water Underground

Jared has worked on The Water Underground

Jared Pierre has worked on The Water Underground

Dave Powell has worked on Important Housing Rights

Kevin Pyle is a comic artist. His books include Blindspot, Lab U.S.A. and Prison Town. He is also a co-editor of World War 3 Illustrated, America’s…

Kevin Pyle is a comic artist. His books include Blindspot, Lab U.S.A. and Prison Town. He is also a co-editor of World War 3 Illustrated, America’s longest running political comics anthology.

Kevin Pyle has worked on Prison City Comix

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Bill Rankin is a historian and cartographer living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is currently finishing a PhD at Harvard on the history of engine…

Bill Rankin is a historian and cartographer living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is currently finishing a PhD at Harvard on the history of engineering and map-making in the first era of globalization; his latest mapping projects will be appearing soon in National Geographic Magazine and a traveling exhibition on experimental geography with Independent Curators International. Bill likes the internet and makes sporadic updates to his website.

Bill Rankin has worked on The Cargo Chain

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David Reinfurt has worked on Social Security Risk Machine

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Damaris Reyes, has been the Executive Director of PHROLES since April 2005. She is a lifelong resident of the Lower East Side and has been involved…

Damaris Reyes, has been the Executive Director of PHROLES since April 2005. She is a lifelong resident of the Lower East Side and has been involved in public housing issues for more than eight years. Previously, as the Director of Organizing for public housing for PHROLES, she worked to educate and empower residents about the issues that plague public housing. She is a founding member of PHROLES has been involved in building several coalitions, including T.R.A.D.E.S. and Rebuild with a Spotlight on the Poor. In November 2002, she traveled to Europe on a study tour to learn about planning and municipal practices employed by European cities. She is a member of the New York City Jobs with Justice Board of Directors Executive Committee and the Pratt Center for Community Development Advisory Board. Her past credits include working in city government with Council Member Margarita López and electoral politics within the Lower East Side community. She is bilingual in English and Spanish and began with the organization in 2000.

Damaris Reyes has worked on PHTV: What's up with public housing?

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Desney Reyes has worked on PHTV: What's up with public housing?

Damon Rich is the founder and chair of the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), a nonprofit organization that educates communities about design, planni…

Damon Rich is the founder and chair of the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), a nonprofit organization that educates communities about design, planning, and politics. After training as an architect at Columbia University, Damon worked for New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, eventually becoming the Chief of Staff for Capital Projects. Since leaving Parks in 2000, in addition to running CUP, Damon has taught design at schools including the Parsons School of Design, Heritage High School, the Brooklyn Museum, the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, and the Queens Library Adult Learning Center. He also writes regularly about architecture and politics for publications including the Village Voice, the Nation, Metropolis, and Architecture magazine. Recently, Damon was awarded a New York State Council on the Arts award for his work with adult literacy and architecture, as well as a fellowship from the MacDowell Colony for his work on the history of urban renewal. From 2007–2008, Damon served as a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Damon Rich has worked on Public Housing 101, PHTV: What's up with public housing?, Building Codes, Building Codes, Coding Communities, Garbage Problems, Gautreaux v. Urban Renewal, Urban Renewal Activity Tables, The City without a Ghetto, Values & Variety: Shopping on Fulton Street, The Center for Critical Skills, The Subsidized Landscape, The Connection between Abandoned Buildings and Homeless People, Governors Island Points of Interest, Cybercity Walking Tour, Hell's Kitchen South: Developing Strategies, Schoolyard Visions, Detroit Do Your Thing!, However Unspectacular: A New Suburbanism, The Water Underground, Abuse of Power: The SPURA Story, Mind the Gap, Big up, Jamaica!, Spacebombing / Don't mess with this city!, What's Poppin at Fulton Mall?, Code City, Temporary Showroom, Social Security Risk Machine, The Programmable City, Chew On This

Edwin Rodriguez is a student at City-as-School.

Edwin Rodriguez is a student at City-as-School.

Edwin Rodriguez has worked on The Water Underground

Lenny Rodway has worked on Big up, Jamaica!

Kate is the New York City Coordinator of the Reentry Net project at The Bronx Defenders. Reentry Net is a collaborative, statewide network and onl…

Kate is the New York City Coordinator of the Reentry Net project at The Bronx Defenders. Reentry Net is a collaborative, statewide network and online resource center on the consequences of criminal proceedings for individuals and their families in New York. Kate has also worked with Critical Resistance, a grassroots organization that works with communities to develop genuine forms of safety that don’t rely on prisons and police. She has taught reading, writing and computer skill to girls and women at a prison for girls in Lansing, NY and the Fortune Society in New York City. She worked as a researcher for the Economic Justice Project of the Brennan Center for Justice, supporting local worker organizing campaigns and asssiting in research projects on New York’s informal labor market. Kate received a BA in History at Cornell University
in 2001. She serves on the Board of CUP.

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Paul Schuette is an architect living in Los Angeles.

Paul Schuette is an architect living in Los Angeles.

Paul Schuette has worked on The Connection between Abandoned Buildings and Homeless People

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Eric Schuldenfrei is a designer who focuses on the evolving relationship between animation, architecture, and art. He currently teaches in the Arc…

Eric Schuldenfrei is a designer who focuses on the evolving relationship between animation, architecture, and art. He currently teaches in the Architecture departments of Princeton and Columbia Universities.

Eric Schuldenfrei has worked on Urban Renewal Activity Tables, The City without a Ghetto

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Alice is an art-organizer, artist, designer, and investigator of city landscapes who has worked with various community art organizations, independe…

Alice is an art-organizer, artist, designer, and investigator of city landscapes who has worked with various community art organizations, independent publications and urbanism non-profits. She is currently completing degrees in Art-Semiotics and Urban Studies at Brown University with an Honors thesis project focusing on radical cartography.

Alice Shay has worked on PHTV: What's up with public housing?, Detroit Do Your Thing!

Angela Starita has worked on Knoxville: Building Communities

Sam Stark is the author of the children’s book Diderot: French Philosopher and Father of the Encyclopedia. He works as an assistant editor at Harpe…

Sam Stark is the author of the children’s book Diderot: French Philosopher and Father of the Encyclopedia. He works as an assistant editor at Harper’s Magazine.

Sam Stark has worked on Building Codes, The Subsidized Landscape, Social Security Risk Machine

Celina Su’s interests lie in the role of civil society in social policy, especially in the interaction of culture, grassroots groups, and educatio…

Celina Su’s interests lie in the role of civil society in social policy, especially in the interaction of culture, grassroots groups, and education or health care policy-making.

Celina Su has worked on Gautreaux v. Urban Renewal, The City without a Ghetto

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Tamara Sussman has worked on Building Codes, The Programmable City

Meredith TenHoor researches contemporary urbanism and politics. She is a Ph.D.candidate in Architecture at Princeton University.

Meredith TenHoor researches contemporary urbanism and politics. She is a Ph.D.candidate in Architecture at Princeton University.

Meredith TenHoor has worked on Values & Variety: Shopping on Fulton Street

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