The Center for Urban Studies fosters community engagement through real-world design, research, and service projects. It encourages students and faculty to pursue collaborations that advance community-driven ideas through education and creative problem-solving.
Interested in Collaborating?
The Center for Urban Studies receives annual project proposals from communities, non-profit organizations, and industry professionals. We welcome you to review our Project Proposal Submission page to submit your request for collaboration, and we look forward to discussing potential opportunities.
Hands-on Design / Community Build Projects
The Center for Urban Studies and Marywood University School of Architecture (MUSOA) bring together students, faculty, industry professionals, and public stakeholders to participate in active-learning projects that take a holistic look at environmental, economic, and social factors affecting our communities, the historical systems we are working to change, and how design can serve as a tool for creating a world where ecosystems and societies can thrive.
Explore our Community Projects
Photo Gallery coming soon
OBSERVE SCRANTON Jane Jacobs’s First City Festival
Observe Scranton is a community Festival, held every other year, that celebrates Scranton through the eyes of Jane Jacobs, its hometown iconic city activist, presented by The Center for The Living City.
“Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds of their own regeneration, with energy enough to carry over for problems and needs outside themselves.”
-Jane Jacobs
The next festival will take place May 2nd - May 4, 2025, in venues throughout the city of Scranton, PA. Explore the festival’s website to learn more about The Center For The Living City, Jane Jacobs, and the previous Observe Scranton Festivals.
Learn more about Observe Festivals
Learn more about Jane Jacobs
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Service Projects / University Opportunities
Marywood Campus Ministry encourages students and community members to engage in any way possible. With local, global, and even virtual options students can engage in various collaborative leadership and service opportunities at MArywood University and beyond.
Get Involved with Campus Ministry
A Laudato Si’ University
In October 2021, Marywood University became a member of the first international cohort of Laudato Si Universities by the Vatican Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development to support Pope Francis’ 7-year Journey Towards Integral Ecology. This action-oriented and holistic approach addresses seven ecological and social challenges in the world.
Explore Marywood & Laudato Si’
Service Awards & Recognition
Coming soon!
