In this way, researchers can substantively trouble the common dichotomies of home/school and academic/everyday by studying, rather than presuming, points of continu-ity or rupture across social settings.

As equity-oriented researchers, we emphasize the fact that such movement is always mediated by questions of power and politics. In this vein, we ask: Whose linguistic, cultural, and intellectual resources are free to move across settings or hybridize, and whose are prohibited, devalued, and marginalized?

At both North Lake and Maple, these social-grouping rearrangements ramified all the way into the classroom spaces during the days surrounding the trip, with students temporarily re-assigned to different desks basedon their field-trip pairings

which for youthbecame a dynamic setting for learning to ride in the city.

and huddled togetherunder a freeway overpass to again scrutinize maps they retrieved from their back pockets.The relation between their mapped route and the experience of riding on city streets wasfragile but recoverable

After a tutorialon how to ride together, youth used a Google MapTMtraffic map of the downtown area toselect a route from the Workshop to a major community park.

We argue that by participating in theseactivities, youth began to understand real and abstracted urban space differently, whichafforded new opportunities for imagining and showing their futures within that space.

n a presentationfacilitated by a researcher (Kris), Carissa described places

Carissa’s image of herself as a young adult ‘‘took place’’ in the city by marking up thedesire layer of her map with a bike lane that allowed a future-time, college student (herself asa young adult) to ride a bike from her university campus, past her current neighborhood, andinto an area of the city that was the center of music publishing and recording.

Our interest in counter-mapping was to provide youth with new resources for movingthrough the city, skills in the use of novel (for them) mapping technologies, and ways ofthinking about representations and spatial phenomena that would allow them to participatein city planning.