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Diana Nelson Jones of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette shares our thoughts on cities. In her blog she says “I often imagine a world in which the only motor vehicles on the road are ambulances, trolleys...
View Articlecars, step aside!
On Monday evening, cyclists and pedestrians turned out en masse for a cityLIVE! presentation by livable cities guru, Gil Peñalosa. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Diana Nelson Jones reports on this...
View ArticlePedestrians are bawse
Streets comprise the largest public space in an urban area—they are the most valuable asset to a city. For the last 50 years, too much attention has been given to the automobile and the human being...
View ArticleWANTED: champions for Pittsburgh
Gil Peñalosa, internationally recognized expert on livable cities, calls on “doers” who can “walk the talk.” Peñalosa gave the keynote presentation at cityLIVE! 37: moving people not cars in which he...
View ArticleCiclovia in the ‘burgh?
What’s all the buzz about? Seeds of an international movement to open streets to people have been planted in the Pittsburgh community following the latest cityLIVE! event with Gil Peñalosa of 8-80...
View Articlecome to our community meeting!
We are excited to announce that we will be holding a community meeting to give an update on our Six Percent Place experiment and unveil our toolbox and what comes next. The community meeting will be...
View ArticlecityLAB is looking for some superheroes…
We are looking for some superheroes… to come to a COMMUNITY MEETING being held from 6 to 7:30 PM on Wednesday, September 7 at the St. Lawrence O’Toole Activity Center on 140 N. Atlantic Avenue in...
View Articlehot off the presses…community meeting september 7th!
Hot off the presses! cityLAB will be holding a community meeting for our 6% Place experiment on September 7th in Garfield – and we need YOU to come and GET INVOLVED! The community meeting will be held...
View Articlecome with your ideas on october 4th!
Come help us connect the dots! Your ideas for Garfield are needed at a brainstorming session! Help us brainstorm for change in Garfield on Tuesday, October 4th at the BGC Community Activity Center,...
View Articleread all about it
We’ve had some great press coverage about our 6% Place experiment and the brainstorming meeting we will be holding tomorrow in Garfield. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review posted a short article about the...
View Articlebrainstorming up a storm
On Tuesday night, cityLAB held a brainstorming session to work through the 16 incentives for our 6% Place in Garfield. Community members worked with the Carnegie Mellon architecture students who are...
View ArticlecityLIVE! 38: looking forward to immigration (with rich and raja)
October 18 2011 | New Hazlett Theater | 6.30p.m. Pittsburgh is less diverse than 98 out of 100 of the largest metropolitan areas in the United States, according to the 2010 census …”whiter even than...
View ArticlecityLIVE! in the news
Last night’s cityLIVE! event was written up in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review this morning. Moderated by Melanie Harrington, CEO of Vibrant Pittsburgh, the event featured D. Raja and Rich Fitzgerald,...
View ArticlecityLIVE! 39: equity in urban education
November 17 2011 | New Hazlett Theater | 6.30p.m. Can algebra be an organizing principal for a civil rights movement? Robert Parris Moses thinks so! As the founder of the Alegbra Project, a...
View Articlepittsburgh CONNECTS garfield this fall
The new Pittsburgh CONNECTS Lab in Garfield has a series of great workshops coming up, including sessions on computer and software training, free computer repair, writing invoices for non-profit...
View Articleurbanized screenings november 8th and 9th
The AIGA Pittsburgh will be screening the new Gary Hustwit film, Urbanized, at the Harris Theater on November 8th at 9 PM and November 9th at 7 PM. Read more about the screenings here and watch the...
View Articlefree citizen architect screening nov. 12th
The Carnegie Museum of Art and the Community Design Center of Pittsburgh are sponsoring a free screening of the film Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of Rural Studio at 2:30 PM on...
View ArticlecityLIVE! 39: equity in urban education – TOMORROW!
November 17 2011 | New Hazlett Theater | 6.30 P.M. Can algebra be an organizing principal for a civil rights movement? Robert Parris Moses thinks so! As the founder of the Alegbra Project, a...
View Articlewe need a little help!
cityLAB’s experiments create a buzz and seed change in cities. Your donation would help us to DO more next year, and that would be a holiday gift for all of us! Click here to donate. Your...
View Article6% in The Bulletin
cityLAB’s 6% Place book has been written up in the Bloomfield-Garfield Bulletin. In the article, Rick Swartz, executive director of the Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation, says, “The book is an...
View Articlems. picker goes to washington
Six days from now, Eve Picker, cityLAB’s intrepid CEO, will be meeting at the White House and wants to hear from you: “Help wanted! 6 days from now I’ll be at the White House, in a meeting with the...
View Articlethe bgc breaks new ground in garfield
On Friday, The Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation held a ground-breaking ceremony for forty-five new homes in Garfield. As this article in the Post-Gazette describes, this effort is the “last leg of a...
View Articlepulse brings electric bikes to pittsburgh
Micah Toll, a mechanical engineering student at the University of Pittsburgh (and former cityLIVE! panelist), is getting national media coverage for a Pittsburgh start-up he founded with two of his...
View Articlepicker joins team to revitalize springfield, illinois
cityLAB’s CEO, Eve Picker, has been named to the Springfield Sustainable Design Assessment Team, which will study ways to make downtown Springfield, Illinois more livable. Springfield architect Chuck...
View Articlemore press for picker’s springfield sdat sojourn
cityLAB’s Eve Picker has had some more press coverage about her upcoming trip to Springfield, Illinois from The State Journal-Register and from WUIS Public Radio in Springfield. Drawing on her...
View Articlepicker and sdat plan for downtown springfield
cityLAB’s president, Eve Picker, was quoted in yet another article in the Springfield, Illinois State Journal-Register about her work there this week with the AIA Sustainable Design Assessment Team....
View Articlepotholes 2.0
We all love to hate potholes. Pittsburgh has plenty, and whether you are on a bike or in a car, it is no fun to hit one. While the city doubled its paving budget to $11 million this year, this will...
View Articleintroducing the cityLIVE! courtyard series
We’re back! Welcome to the cityLIVE Courtyard Series! This summer we’ll be screening three great documentary films outdoors, in the courtyard of 947 Liberty Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh. The films...
View ArticlecityLAB at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Save the date! Eve Picker, cityLAB’s intrepid CEO, will be a panelist at a discussion on low-income neighborhoods and how they participate in regional economies, including their untapped market...
View Articlea pop-up forest
A forest has popped up in the ToonSeum’s courtyard at 947 Liberty Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh, next door to cityLAB’s offices! The Urban Forest, planted by Project Pop Up: Pittsburgh, in conjunction...
View ArticleThe Pruitt-Igoe Myth screening postponed to 8/2/12
Hello! In light of tonight’s severe weather advisory, we are cancelling tonight’s screening of The Pruitt-Igoe Myth. Please join us for a rescheduled screening of The Pruitt-Igoe Myth next Thursday,...
View Articlelooking back: the cityLIVE! courtyard film series
The rain slowed enough last Thursday to screen our last film, The Pruitt-Igoe Myth. We popped lots of corn and filled the house. Thanks to everyone for coming down, to the Toonseum for hosting us and...
View Articlethe 6% Place book is ready for your e-reader!
cityLAB’s 6% Place book is now available for your e-reader! Buy it for your Kindle, Nook, and iPad, or buy a beautifully-bound copy of the book here. And you can still download the book for free here....
View Articlenew partners for the 6% place!
And now we are getting on with it. With the help of $49,350 awarded to the Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation by the Heinz Endowments and the energy of our newly-formed 6% Place committee, we are...
View Articlea 6% walkabout in the post-gazette
The 6% Place is “an innovative path to socially compassionate community change” says Rob Stephany, director of the Heinz Endowments’ community and economic development program. “We want to see vibrant...
View Articleeric lidji’s assemble daily news
Local artist and author Eric Lidji is publishing a daily cartoon newspaper at Assemble Gallery in Garfield through the end of the month, the Assemble Daily News. Each day in September, Eric posts a set...
View Articleget counted in the garfield creative census!
cityLAB is pleased to announce the Garfield Creative Census, which will provide a baseline for counting creative workers, dabblers, and hobbyists in the 6% Place and beyond. Take the Garfield Creative...
View Articlemad science supply & surplus launches in garfield!
The folks at MAYA and LAB will be launching MAD SCIENCE SUPPLY & SURPLUS on 10/27/12 from 3-5 PM at Assemble on 5125 Penn Avenue in Garfield. They will be selling mad science supplies, handing out...
View Articlelooking for a chef? a graphic designer? an urban farmer?
…they all live in Garfield and are a part of the Garfield Freelancers Database! While cityLAB finishes up door-to-door surveying for the Garfield Creative Census, we’ll keep the online survey open so...
View Articlecitylab presents: strong towns curbside chat 1/11
Join us for a free brown-bag lunch and Curbside Chat on Friday, January 11th, sponsored by cityLAB and Bruno Works. Charles Marohn of Minnesota-based non-profit Strong Towns has been visiting...
View Articlepicker presents cure for the common city at TEDxCMU
cityLAB’s intrepid CEO, Eve Picker, presented at TEDxCMU on Sunday. Her talk, “Cure for the Common City,” focused on the costs of top-down and bottom-up approaches to urban development. This morning’s...
View Articlesee our new and improved tracking tools!
cityLAB’s 6% Place Tracking Tools have a new home! Check them out at here and see the results of cityLAB’s 2012 Garfield Creative Census (according to our calculations, the 6% Place is currently a...
View Articlegarfield night market may debut this spring
Have you heard the news? cityLAB and the 6% Place Advisory Committee are organizing a night market in Garfield to begin this summer and we are looking for vendors, volunteers, performers, and sponsors....
View Articleannouncing lessons from the 6% place this spring!
What’s that item in the back of this month’s Bloomfield-Garfield Bulletin? Aha! Please come to our first workshop for Lessons from the 6% Place on April 25th, 2013 at 6:30 PM at Assemble Gallery in...
View Articlegarfield show-n-tell june 7th!
Catapult Show-n-Tell #13: Garfield Showcase Friday, June 7th 2013 at 6 PM Catapult PGH, 5139 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh PA 15224 RSVP for a very special edition of Catapult’s monthly Show-n-Tell,...
View Articlesupport garfield entrepreneurs at bar marco on 6/24!
No Menu Monday Monday, June 24th, 5-10 PM Bar Marco, 2216 Penn Avenue Come out next Monday, enjoy some tacos from Pittsburgh Taco Truck, and help get the Garfield Night Market up and running! All...
View Articlethe garfield night market in the union hall times!
The kind people at The Union Hall Times focused the latest issue of their newsletter on the Garfield Night Market, which the profits from next Monday’s No Menu Monday at Bar Marco (from 5-10 PM!) will...
View Articlethe garfield night market debuts!
The Garfield Night Market kicked off last Friday night and was a big success. The market had 29 vendors, six of whom were from Garfield, which — though we’ve set it as our goal to have more and more...
View Articlegarfield night market #2 (+ video!)
The second Garfield Night Market was held on September 6, 2013 with more vendors (including 9 Garfield-based vendors), a bigger crowd and more lanterns! Miss it? Take a stroll through the Night Market...
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