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Garfield Night Market
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See our wish list. News & Events. Tank not a think tank. See all the experiments. The Garfield Night Market is a project of our 6% Place. Experiment. Keep up with our blog. And meet our team. Interested in being a vendor or a volunteer at the Garfield Night Market? Fill our the application forms there, and the market manager will be in touch! The Garfield Night Market will:. 8211; help entrepreneurial Garfield residents try out and expand their businesses,. One minute at the market. The Night Market orga...
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6% place
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See our wish list. News & Events. Tank not a think tank. See all the experiments. You can read our 6% Place book. Check out our Tracking Tools. Learn how to make your own maps with our tutorial. Or meet our team. 6% is the number, the tipping point. If a neighborhood can get that many creative workers, it becomes an attraction in its own right, according to a study. The lay of the land. We systematically researched of the people and places of the Garfield, Penn Avenue and Friendship neighborhoods as well...
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People < cityLAB
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See our wish list. News & Events. Tank not a think tank. CityLAB is a tiny organization that benefits from all of the people. Involved in our projects. See our staff. And our past volunteers. Our thanks to them and to our generous partners. Anne J. Swager. Anthony E. Harbour. Charles P. Ries. Derrick L. Lopez. Dr Alan J. Russell. James V. Denova, Ph.D. Kimberly C. Ellis. Michele de la Reza. William T. Cagney. The Garfield Freelancers Database. A series of free business education workshops for freelancers...
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Lessons from the 6% Place
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See our wish list. News & Events. Tank not a think tank. See all the experiments. Lessons from the 6% Place. This series of free business education workshops for independent workers is a project of our 6% Place. Experiment. Follow along with our blog. Lessons from the 6% Place is a free business education series for freelancers and other creative entrepreneurs. The series is based in Garfield, the home of cityLAB’s 6% Place. Experiment, which seeks to build Garfield’s creative worker community. Has worke...
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news & events < cityLAB
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See our wish list. News & Events. Tank not a think tank. Garfield 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! Take a stroll through the Night Market in the video below, see photos from September’s market on the Facebook page. And come to the October 4th Night Market. The garfield night market debuts! The garfield night market in the union hall times! All profits from June ...
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Experiments < cityLAB
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See our wish list. News & Events. Tank not a think tank. Follow along as cityLAB builds a Tiny House in Garfield, the first of its kind, and shares the lessons we learn along the way. An exploration of living small as a potential driver of economic development, Tiny Houses are part of our 6% Place experiment. CityLAB's Eve Picker describes the economic development impact of bottom-up thinking thinking small writ large at 2013's TedxCMU. The Garfield Freelancers Database. The 2012 Creative Census counted ...
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Cure for the Common City
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See our wish list. News & Events. Tank not a think tank. See all the experiments. Cure for the Common City. A talk about the catalytic effects of thinking small. CityLAB’s intrepid CEO, Eve Picker, took the stage at TedxCMU. In March 2013 to describe her vision for a “bottom-up” approach to economic development. Her talk, “Cure for the Common City,” focused on the costs of top-down and bottom-up approaches to urban development, as. Carnegie Mellon University’s student paper described. The 6% Place Tracki...
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Tiny Houses
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See our wish list. News & Events. Tank not a think tank. See all the experiments. An exploration of living small as a potential driver of economic development, Tiny Houses are part of our 6% Place. Experiment. Follow along with our Tiny House Journal. As we build Garfield's first Tiny House! CityLAB believes that building small houses could make a big impact, and we will begin studying how to bring Tiny Houses to Garfield in late 2013. The idea of Tiny Houses was one outcome of our 2011 6% Place book.
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