Moving from big to small…

The Turner Contemporary At Gallery, accused of courting gentrification in Margate, UK.

The Developer, a UK-based urbanist magazine and the organizer for the Festival of Place, interviewed Reif Larsen of the Future of Small Cities Institute about migration patterns from big cities to small cities and the impacts these demographic shifts have on local communities. Read the piece, “Why Londoners come to towns: ‘Communities will push back against them’” by Chris Stokel-Walker.

“I think we’re very much in the middle of trying to figure out what small cities need to offer,” says Larsen. “This is an international phenomenon we’re seeing, and there are nuances, but many of the core questions are similar.”