Pharis officially began her new role as the research center’s architect in March. While a student in MSU’s School of Architecture, Pharis worked at the Carl Small Town Center and even volunteered ...

"The simpler the better." Resident shares photo of striking town center garden design: 'I wish all towns planted this thoughtfully' first appeared on The Cool Down.

For decades, when my parents, Nelda and Gary Risher, have hosted out-of-towners, my dad has forced most of the guests to join him for a tour of the town where they live and where my whole family ...

Director and Primary Researcher, Fred Carl Jr. Small Town Center; Adjunct Professor of Architecture, Mississippi State University Before the global pandemic hit, small towns across America were ...

The Kamikatz Public House building in the trashless mountain village of Kamikatsu not only conserves energy and resources, and decreases harmful emissions by reducing, reusing and recycling, but ...