CityLab - A Johns Hopkins University project exploring urban social innovation
EXPLORING DC'S IVY CITY
Why Ivy City?
October 2017
The area is a great curiosity to me.  I haven't been in a neighborhood where there is such a disparate mixture of housing, warehouses, and stores.  My first experience of the neighborhood was back in 2016, when I happened to visit a small and charming distillery in the area.  I walked around, and was pleasantly intrigued at the mixture of zoning.  I hadn't experienced that before, even in my travels abroad.  This unique blend has compelled me to frequent Ivy City often.  I wanted to continue this exploration the lens of CityLab.
What is CityLab?
The premise for CityLab is "livable cities for a livable future"
CityLab is an academic business curriculum and posits itself as a laboratory for business, with humanity in mind. Â Behind this idea is that "reinventing cities for the Urban Century requires intellectual breadth and depth to understand urban challenges as well as practical expertise to manage the complex ecosystem of urban stakeholders and infrastructure." (Thompson, 2017)
Part I of a two part course series, CityLab is an immersion in the themes, domains, strategies, practices of working with urban neighborhoods.
Learn more about other CityLab, Ward 5 projects!
Check out other DC CityLab
Alicia Alfiere (Ivy City) - http://jhualicia.weebly.com
Arun Dotson (Eckington) - http://arunjhu.weebly.com
Mark Stepanian (Gateway) - http://jhums23.weebly.com/
Matt Anderson (Gateway) -https://jhumatt.weebly.com
Mahwish Bajwa (Eckington) - http://maviesi4.wixsite.com/mysite-eckington/home-about-eckington
Meredith Johnstone (Ivy City) - https://ivycity.weebly.com
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