Boston is home to some of the most prestigious universities among the US, MIT and Harvard, is recognized as one of largest innovation cluster in the world. Pioneer in the field of digital uses in urbanism, the city is now trying to answer with the same creativity to its resilience issues. Strongly impacted by the sea level rise and designated as the most segregated city in the United States, Boston has to reinvent itself in order to maintain its dynamism. The city is an ideal environment for the international seminar of La Fabrique de la Cité in 2016 which focused on new urban trends.