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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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‘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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‘Big Plans & Little People’

Lotus International

July 01, 2005

“The connection between everyday life and the built environment is not always obvious.”

Building Codes

‘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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BOMB Spring 2004

‘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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BCCC

‘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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