MIT names Center for Advanced Urbanism in honor of visionary developer Norman...
MIT has named its Center for Advanced Urbanism (CAU) in honor of Norman B. Leventhal '38, a visionary developer and philanthropist at the center of Boston’s postwar revival. A life member emeritus of...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing the Silver Line commute
Crowdsourced data may soon improve commutes for Boston residents who ride the Silver Line bus.A new smartphone initiative called QualiT, launched this month as part of a collaboration between MIT...
View ArticleTwo from MIT win Architectural League of New York honors
The Architectural League of New York has honored two members of the School of Architecture and Planning community with its annual prize for young architects and designers.Design Earth, a collaborative...
View ArticleNew model from Masdar Institute-MIT collaboration to support a cooler, more...
The following is adapted from a Masdar Institute article by Erica Solomon.Cities generate a lot of heat, from car motors to heat-trapping pavements and structures, to the very things we use to cool our...
View ArticleThriving on risk in real estate
Well-functioning markets thrive on risk and deciding how to value it, but to assess risk, markets rely on knowing what they don’t know. Uncertainty, or not knowing how much risk is present, is a market...
View ArticlePrison is the ideal classroom for new urban studies course
Each Friday morning this semester, the 24 students in MIT course 11.469 (Urban Sociology) have traveled one of two routes to class.Half of them gather at 6:50 a.m. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, clamber...
View ArticleMaking cities smarter
Imagine your city as it might be in the not-so-distant future. Transportation in this city is various, pleasant, and low-impact. There are safe and efficient bike lanes, and anyone can order a cheap...
View ArticleAt hooding ceremony, doctoral graduates urged to solve the world’s “toughest...
Former Nigerian Minister of Finance Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala MCP ’78, PhD ’81 urged MIT’s newly minted doctoral graduates to solve “the world’s toughest challenges,” in a keynote speech at the Institute’s...
View ArticleEight from MIT awarded 2016 Fulbright grants
Six MIT graduate students, one undergraduate, and a recent alumnus have accepted Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards to conduct independent research projects during the coming year. Another...
View ArticleCities of tomorrow
Cities can be confusing, messy places. Traffic jams make it hard to get around. Public transit can be puzzling. Trash piles up. So what can make cities function better?One starting point is to let all...
View ArticleArt and science merge in a disaster readiness haven
People walking by MIT's Building 9, formally named the Samuel Tak Lee Building in Cambridge, Massachusetts, pause to contemplate the white plastic structure that appears to be part bench and part...
View ArticleSeeking simple solutions with huge impacts
Cauam Cardoso was only 17 when he decided to break from family tradition and pursue engineering instead of the arts, a move that set him on a path to working with communities in need.Over the past...
View ArticleDUSP, CRE, and STL Lab award $1.1 million in second round of faculty research...
The Samuel Tak Lee MIT Real Estate Entrepreneurship Lab (STL Lab), in conjunction with the Center for Real Estate (CRE) and the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), has announced its second...
View ArticleImproving pavement management in Jordan
Omar Swei, a PhD student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and researcher in the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSHub), has long been interested in addressing complex questions...
View Article“Beijing Studio” celebrates 30 years
This winter, China released its 13th “Five-Year Plan,” a socioeconomic blueprint for designing the country’s future. Alongside measures to improve per capita income, life expectancy, air and water...
View ArticleMarket makers
Climate change is a global problem — but its solution relies on national, regional, and local policy actions. Take the issue of greenhouse gas emissions markets, which put a price on, say, the amount...
View ArticleAssessing health impacts of policies and plans
When most people think about health inequality, they usually focus on lack of access to doctors or health insurance. They don’t often consider how the city is constructed or the availability of...
View ArticleJudith Tendler, professor emerita in urban studies and planning, dies at 77
Judith Tendler, professor emerita in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), passed away on July 24 at the age of 77.Tendler was a development economist with an institutional bent....
View ArticleReach in and touch objects in videos with “Interactive Dynamic Video”
We learn a lot about objects by manipulating them: poking, pushing, prodding, and then seeing how they react.We obviously can’t do that with videos — just try touching that cat video on your phone and...
View ArticleJohn Fernández: Growing grassroots for sustainability on campus and abroad
John Fernández ’85 is not interested in overleaping boundaries so much as erasing them. The MIT professor, who was recently named director of the Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI), started out...
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