The YSP Research Library is an open archive of briefs, field notes, datasets, and pilots authored by youth fellows aged 16–28. Edited by senior practitioners. Published openly under each fellow's own byline. No paywall, no gatekeeping.
Da Nang, Modesto, and Faisalabad each ran a different version of a public‑cool‑space pilot in the summer of 2025. A YSP fellow embedded with each city's planning office for six weeks. This brief is what they found — and what didn't translate.
Filter by route, topic, year, format, or region. Every publication keeps the fellow's name on it. Cite freely — we publish under a CC BY 4.0 licence.
Six weeks embedded with planning offices in Da Nang, Modesto, and Faisalabad. What worked, what didn't translate, and what no one wrote down.
A two‑month field study of Modesto's tree‑equity programme — who shows up to public meetings, and who is counted when shade is measured.
An anonymised, consent‑first dataset built with three EU youth councils — designed to inform policy without surveilling the kids it's about.
Eighteen interviews with county planners across four U.S. states. The reform isn't failing on ideology — it's failing on capacity, software, and one person nearing retirement.
On informal economies, diaspora research, and the violence of treating two contexts as equivalents — written from the U.S., reported from Forcella.
A close read of five ASEAN summit communiqués between 2021 and 2025, and the words that moved in and out of the consensus draft.
A pilot run between cyclone seasons. What the meter showed, what the panchayat asked for, and what the next iteration would change.
A working paper based on twelve months of supplier interviews around Shenzhen. The compliance, the workarounds, and the cost passed downstream.
A digital‑first municipal ID rolled out across two markets. What it solved for traders, what it didn't, and what it cost in trust.
The first three years of the new tariff regime, and what the data tells us about household behaviour vs. landlord behaviour.
A cross‑country audit of how civic datasets are published, licensed, and updated across eight ASEAN member states. With suggested minimums.
A walk‑through audit of cooling‑centre access across five neighbourhoods during the 2024 advisories. The gaps between map and reality.
Topic clusters are emergent — surfaced from what's actually been published in the last 18 months, not from a top‑down taxonomy.
Each collection is assembled by a YSP senior advisor on a problem they actually care about. Read the brief; follow the bibliography.
A reading list for any planner, climate desk, or fellow trying to write an adaptive cooling brief in 2026. Spans Da Nang, Modesto, Faisalabad, and three more.
Eight briefs on permitting reform where capacity, not ideology, is the bottleneck.
Six pieces on building civic datasets that inform without surveilling the kids they're about.
Seven briefs on care economies, the work that vanishes from policy, and how it might be paid attention to.
Nine field notes from the ASEAN region — the smallest unit of policy that still matters.
The library reads submissions year‑round from fellows, alumni, and youth aged 16–28 outside the cohort. We don't expect polished writing — we expect a specific question, lived context, and a willingness to be edited well.