This week, cityLAB’s president and CEO, Eve Picker, departs for Italy. She will spend a month there, at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center on Lake Como, as a practitioner in residence. In amongst the community of fellow Bellagio residents — international policy makers, scholars, artists and practitioners — she’ll work to further develop new perspectives and approaches for the future of cityLAB.
news & events
more funding!
We have just received funding from Ben & Jerry’s toward our 2011 cityLIVE! season;
new funding
In December last year the Hillman Foundation funded cityLIVE!
6% place idea spreads…
cityLAB recently received a letter from Eric Ustation, Assistant to the Mayor of Riverside, California.
Riverside, dubbed the City of Arts and Innovation, is looking for new ways to empower their local neighborhoods. Mayor Loveridge heard about our 6% Place experiment at a National League of Cities meeting and was intrigued by the concept. On the Mayor’s website residents are invited to send in their great ideas to further their aim for the city to “Seize its own Destiny” and direct their community toward becoming more innovative. An important part of cityLAB’s work is to connect with forward-thinking communities like Riverside, and to share the blueprint for the 6% place. We’re looking forward to working with Mayor Loveridge and with many other future sister cities across the country.
Post-Gazette Story
Published on 01.01.11, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. By Diana Nelson Jones.
breaking news
An article on cityLAB’s Six Percent Place was published today in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review.
Bill Zlatos reported;
“CityLAB (is targeting) the Penn Avenue Arts Corridor — a mile-long stretch of galleries and art attractions between Mathilda Street and Negley Avenue. When the corridor was created 15 years ago, the goal was to tie its neighborhoods of Garfield and Friendship together. Garfield, however, still is lined with vacant and shuttered buildings and has the lowest proportion of college graduates in the city — less than 5 percent.
“We’re going to figure out what’s (needed) to make this a better place for everyone,” Picker said.”