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Changing cities and changing lives, together
Looking for a meaningful and exciting semester experience in New York City?
Our programs offer city-based experiences for young adults and teachers, working with small groups of peers to creatively explore urgent challenges and opportunities facing the city.
OUR PROGRAMS
An experiential gap semester program for participants ages 18-25 engaging with the city as a classroom, laboratory, studio and community
Professional Development workshops in which teachers journey from theory to practice, experiencing immersive fieldwork and designing classroom projects
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OUR APPROACH
Place-Based We go outdoors in small cohorts of 8-10 to explore the places, history, and policy, and engage the people, of NYC.
Project-Based We pursue consequential projects, through hands-on problem-solving and participant agency.
Partnerships and Civic Engagement We partner with nonprofits, advocacy groups, city agencies and experts to address real-world challenges.
Portfolios Participants create robust portfolios of work rooted deeply in NYC culture and policy, in a variety of creative media.
We work with a team of experienced urbanists, planners, community organizers, policymakers, artists, city government officials, architects, designers, entrepreneurs and civic partners, to provide immersive, experiential programs for young people in New York City. Here are a few of our partners:
NYC Department of Transportation
The Living City Project’s partnerships across city government give our students experience-driven insights into some of the most complex urban processes in New York City.
The Department of Transportation remains a key partner in our examination of Equitable Public Space. The DOT creates and manages much of New York City’s public realm, including roads, bike lanes, sidewalks, and plazas. Since 2020, they have expanded public space initiatives with Open Streets, which transform city streets into pedestrian-friendly public spaces.
Our participants are collaborating with the DOT Public Realm Team to develop and implement a Public Space Evaluation Toolkit, to assess various types of spaces and provide data on which to base future improvements.
