On May 14, the Future of Small Cities Institute joined local, state, and regional leaders at the Tidewater Riverfront Symposium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, a day-long gathering focused on the future of the communities connected by the Blackstone River Valley.

Reif Larsen, Executive Director of the Future of Small Cities Institute, will be speaking at the Tidewater Riverway Symposium on May 14 in Pawtucket, joining regional leaders, designers, and community members to explore the future of the Blackstone River corridor.

The Future of Small Cities Institute is teaming up with local organizations in Boston to create a series of Climate Spaces—community storytelling labs that showcase resilience designs and sustainable technologies.

On March 6, the Pleasant Street Neighborhood Network Center launched its new Urban Room redesign and opened its door to the community!

As part of the Beacon Climate Conference, a contingent of us visit CALA a mixed-use “urban village” adapted from a former brutalist school building in Somerville, MA.

Last night at the PACT neighborhood meeting, TDI and the Future of Small Cities unveiled the new Pleasant Street neighborhood logo, the Urban Room redesign plans for the PSNNC, and a Community Map Table, which will serve as the first installation in the new Urban Room.

Community Resilience Hubs offer neighborhoods a cultural anchor point that can support the process of recovery and rebound, while also helping communities to continue growing and thriving in a changing world.

The Pleasant Street Neighborhood Network Center's Community Design Team reviewed architect Penn Ruderman's Design Concepts for the new Urban Room.

As part of the redesign of the Pleasant Street Neighborhood Network Center, the Future of Small Cities Institute is helping to build a Community Map Table.

We had an amazing day at the Whittenton Block Party engaging with the community about what they would like to see in The Loft’s Urban Room!

T.R.U.E. Diversity, MassDevelopment's TDI and The Future of Small Cities Institute are building an “Urban Room” in The Loft in Taunton. We want you to be a part of this design process!

Tanya Lobo, Executive Director of T.R.U.E. Diversity, hosted a launch event to announce “The Loft,” a Community Resilience Hub, which will house T.R.U.E.’s educational and cultural programing, and also a host an Urban Room community space and Clean Energy Training Center.

The Future of Small Cities Institute is partnering with MassDevelopment to revamp the Pleasant Street Neighborhood Network Center into a more flexible, dynamic Urban Room.

The Future of Small Cities Institute is partnering with T.R.U.E. Diversity and MassDevelopment’s Transformative Development Initiative (TDI) to establish a Community Resilience Hub in Taunton, MA.

On December 19, The Future of Small Cities accompanied a small team from the Worcester TDI coalition to go visit the amazing Make-It Springfield.

As part of our work with MassDevelopment in Worcester and Taunton, we’ve created a little primer on Urban Rooms.