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.