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Monday Septemeber 8, 2008
9:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Faculty Club
50 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Registration at 8:30 am; Program begins at 9:00 am
In 2004-05, the Housing, Community and Economic Development group hosted a weekly luncheon series which resulted in a publication entitled “Voices from Forgotten Cities: Innovative Revitalization Coalitions in America’s Older Small Cities.” To launch the dissemination of the report, a national convening, sponsored by DUSP, PolicyLink, and Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association, was held at MIT in October 2007.
To commemorate the recent release of PolicyLink’s companion report, “To Be Strong Again: Renewing the Promise in Smaller Industrial Cities,” a follow up convening will be held at the MIT Faculty Club on September 8, 2008 from 10am to 2pm (registration at 9:30am, breakfast and lunch will be provided).
Please notify Harriette Crawford (hcrawfor@mit.edu) if you would like to register for the convening. The program for this event will be forwarded to attendees.
The convening is sponsored by PolicyLink, MIT’s Community Innovators Lab, and the MA Smart Growth Alliance; registration is free.
To download or view “To Be Strong Again: Renewing the Promise in Smaller Industrial Cities,” go to: http://www.policylink.org/Projects/CoreCitiesInitiative/smallercities.html
To download or view “Voices from Forgotten Cities,” go to: http://www.policylink.org/documents/forgottencities_final.pdf
Print copies of both reports are available in Room 9-519.
Remembering Forgotten Cities
the agenda is here
Friday October 12, 2007
9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Von Hippel Room (13-2137)
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Registration at 8:30 am; Program begins at 9:00 am
The Department of Urban Studies and Planning at M.I.T., PolicyLink, and Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA) will host a discussion about the revitalization of America’s “Forgotten Cities.” This invitation-only roundtable will be held on Friday, October 12, 2007 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
This purpose of this convening is to bring the individual speakers from the 2004-05 series together for one day, along with other leaders who are working to transform such cities, to participate in a discussion and network-building session. At the convening, we expect to accomplish three goals:
• Share the Voices from Forgotten Cities report and allow seminar series participants to talk about their experiences undertaking revitalization in smaller industrial cities;
• Discuss, and get feedback on, the framework for practice in forgotten cities that Prof. Hoyt is developing to guide future academic work; and
• Share the state and national comparative research and policy initiatives being undertaken by numerous organizations including CHAPA, PolicyLink, and the Brookings Institution
For more information about this convening, please feel free to contact Jesse Kaminsky
MIT@Lawrence was featured in MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning’s PLAN magazine. Check out the article here.
Aaron Stelson’s fellowship in Lawrence was featured on the Public Service Center’s Showcase page. Check it out here.
Aaron Stelson, a first year Masters Student, performs community-based service working in Lawrence Community Work’s real estate department to track properties. The department is always on the lookout for putting new properties back into productive community use through affordable housing development.
Aaron helps them research and identify properties that have fallen into tax lien or land court or general disuse.