In building a learning community without walls, City Lab partners with The Gold Commitment by offering students an intentional framework to integrate the world of knowledge about humanity’s urban experience with top-shelf critical thinking –especially complexity thinking—and with multiple co-curricular experiential learning opportunities.  A key feature of City Lab’s intentionality is the scaffolding of experiences that aim to provide breadth and depth each student’s development as a life-long learner.  Pursuing these goals, City Lab embraces The Gold Commitment’s three core areas:  collaboration and communication; civic and global engagement;  and career development.  City Lab intellectual commons provides students with opportunities to explore, engage, and connect.