Urban Cipher
Urban Cipher
Urban Cipher is a creative way to unpack how cities and federal agencies created urban apartheid by design. It is a refreshing twist on the monopoly genre.
By illuminating how public policy and real estate practices shape our destinies, Urban Cipher is a fun learning tool to use in schools, staff trainings, and organizational workshops.
Product Description
Urban Cipher comes in a colorful cardboard box 11.6" x 11.6" x 2.25" in size. It includes a game board, instructions, player pieces, dice, cards, and game cash for gameplay. The game box contains cipher cards to highlight urban policies and the official redlining map for each city for players to examine after the game.
City Editions
We currently sell city editions for Baltimore, Chicago, Atlanta, St. Louis, New Orleans, and Washington DC metro area (DMV). The Montgomery edition is sold out with no current plans to reorder, while editions for Chicago and the DMV will be reordered by December.
Creating New Editions
We can create a new edition for your city if it has a high-quality redlining map available on Mapping Inequality. If you are interested in supporting the creation of an edition for your city, we accept a $1,500 commission fee to defray expenses for:
- graphic design for custom game box and property cards ($300)
- neighborhood identification with alphanumeric code ($300)
- game production and manufacturing ($450)
- shipping from overseas manufacturing facility ($300)
- shipping from our assembly facility to customer ($150)
This will base commission will cover the production for a batch of 6 games. Additional games can be added at a price of $50 each.
Use the Contact link in the menu bar to submit a request. This introductory fee will increase soon, so order today!