Community Workshop

cityLab is a summer workshop that studied pedestrian behavior at Parkside of Old Town, the former Cabrini-Green public housing site in Chicago. Through a series of neighborhood and building analyses, the student interns examined: public vs. private spaces; retail and work space; recreation and green spaces; and intersections. For six weeks, they observed and surveyed…

Airlab is a team of 5 high school students and 3 college-level mentors, now young Chicago civic leaders, whose mission is to research and collect data on the indoor air quality (IAQ) at the Rosa Parks Apartments in the West Humboldt Park Community. Our program goals are to educate communities, organizations, and city leaders to…