The Action Mapping Project (AMP): Collaborating with youth to improve livability in Tacoma
Jun 06, 2019
Matt Kelley
The Action Mapping Project (AMP): Collaborating with youth to improve livability in Tacoma

Dr. Matthew Kelley is a member of the Urban Studies faculty at the University of Washington Tacoma where he spends his time researching how maps, spatial data, and new information technologies can be leveraged to improve or augment the ways that we approach community development – the ways, in other words, we work to make our neighborhoods more livable. For the past several years he has been building the Action Mapping Project (AMP), which is a youth-centered community mapping and neighborhood improvement initiative that is empowering thousands of Tacoma’s middle school and high school aged youth to be a part of the urban planning and community development process in their own neighborhoods.