Experiments
Garfield Night Market
Vendors, volunteers, performers, and sponsors are sought for a new Garfield Night Market, which will start up first Fridays this summer to coincide with Penn Avenue Unblurred.
Lessons from the
6% Place
A series of free business education workshops for freelancers and creative entrepreneurs centered in Garfield to support the neighborhood's creative economy.
6% Place
6% is the number, the tipping point. If a neighborhood can get that many creative workers, it becomes an attraction in its own right.
6% Place
Tracking Tools
The 6% Place Tracking Tools are a series of maps and charts that visualize development in Garfield and on Penn Avenue.
The Garfield Freelancers Database
Looking for an artist, an architect, a coder, a chef or an urban farmer? Look no further. Find local talent in our growing database of creative freelancers.
6% Place book
cityLAB's 6% Place book and ebook, available for purchase (and as a free downloadable PDF), examines how people, and not just physical investment, can drive economic development.
The Garfield
Creative Census
The 2012 Creative Census counted and connected the people engaged in the creative economy of Pittsburgh's Garfield neighborhood.
shop
Buy our tees, tote, book, or e-book and show your support for cityLAB.
cityLIVE!
cityLIVE! is a provocative urban forum for eduÂcational, entertaining, and surprising evenings of discussion and networking.
internLAB
cityLAB offers internships where you actually get to do something!
Help in the office, help with an experiment, or even pitch your own.
pop Pittsburgh up
We will create a series of temporary Pop-Ups in other cities to inventively highlight and share Pittsburgh’s secrets and best assets with new populations.