All Things Urban

Pratt Center is the only university-based community development organization that operates at both the ground and policy levels, across New York's 5 boroughs, to help create more equitable and sustainable communities in an era of accelerating economic and environmental inequality. We believe that effective urban planning is a bottom-up process that can best be achieved by first working to understand community dynamics and the real impact of choices, and then translating this understanding into public policy that effectively meets the needs of residents and businesses.