ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.- On Sunday, March 18, the Center for Urban Pedagogy's Damon Rich leads "Underground Service Alert," an architectural walking tour of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA) on Manhattan's Lower East Side. This is a component of the exhibition Lost & Found City, organized by first-year graduate students at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. The tour begins at 2:00 p.m., departing from Storefront for Art and Architecture, 97 Kenmare St (between Mulberry and Lafayette), in New York City. Reservations are required as space is limited. To attend, please r.s.v.p. to niko.vicario@gmail.com. [In case of any weather-related announcements or delays, those who have r.s.v.p.'d will be notified.

For Lost and Found City (March 3-24, 2007), the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) has installed copies of Abuse of Power (located on gallery desk), photomontages, and a diagrammatic map. The walking tour, "Underground Service Alert," examines SPURA and its environs (I¡ $B%9 (Bfrom new glass towers to avant-garde public housing, old churches and synagogues to vacant lots, SPURA tells many stories of the struggle for the future of New York City. Participants from CUP include Damon Rich, Rosten Woo, Jae Shin, and Naoki Fujita.

In 2006, Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) conducted an investigation of the built environment of SPURA (I¡ $B%9 (Bthe Seward Park Urban Renewal Area. Located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, SPURA's contested history begins in the mid-1950s and continues today. CUP documented the work with photomontages of historical materials, published in the booklet Abuse of Power: The SPURA Story (2006), recording debates around community development, affordable housing, and cultural upscaling.

Lost and Found City is an exhibition project, curated by 10 graduate students in their first year of study in curatorial studies and contemporary culture at CCS Bard. The project examines the intersection of private and public settings, as well as the metaphorical "owning" of locations based upon personal events. TLost and Found City continues on view at Storefront for Art and Architecture through Saturday, March 24. For further information, visit www.bard.edu/ccs/lostandfoundcity.