Living City Project’s Fall 2025 CityGAP partnered with the NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) to create 5 games based on the DOT Street Design Manual (SDM). The SDM is a complex tool for street design, and the DOT asked the LCP CityGAP team to "gamify" it so NYC residents and stakeholders could more easily understand the SDM and communicate public goals and desires to DOT designers proposing street design interventions, such as Open Streets, Protected Bike Lanes and Pedestrian Plazas.

After researching the SDM, exploring game typologies, conducting interviews with various DOT teams, and meeting with game designers, CityGAP designed 5 games, so as to be able to engage a wide array of stakeholders (elders, children, variously abled, residents, shop owners, commuters, cyclists, environmentalists, NGOs, planners...) in a variety of situations (street events, tabling sessions, open houses, community board meetings, DOT onboarding, design charrettes...)​. The CityGAP team also created a Project Scope Document (summarizing their process, guiding future users, and proposing avenues for developing the online game prototypes), and all the game materials necessary for the DOT, or community partners, to run the analog games.