Real estate forum features talk on value of design
MIT’s Annual Real Estate Forum, jointly sponsored by the alumni association of the MIT Center for Real Estate and the Urban Land Institute of Boston, was held April 5 at MIT. This year’s program...
View ArticleSA+P students sweep visual arts awards
Five graduate students from the School of Architecture + Planning — candidates for degrees in media studies, in architecture, and in art, culture and technology — took all the top honors in this year’s...
View ArticleThe ‘Great Rent Wars’ of New York
In 1920, a Bronx district court judge named William E. Morris heard a series of cases that aroused his ire. Morris was a tough Army veteran: While serving under Gen. George Custer in 1876, he had...
View Article3 Questions: Alan Berger on cities and health
How do cities affect our health? A newly published research report from MIT’s Center for Advanced Urbanism (CAU) highlights the complexity of the issue. Produced in collaboration with the American...
View ArticleFinding the value of virtual real estate
Current research at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning's Center for Real Estate is investigating the economics of virtual real estate, using techniques customarily used for bricks-and-mortar....
View ArticleTelecommunications data show civic dividing lines in major countries
Many residents of Britain, Italy, and Belgium imagine there to be a kind of north-south divide in their countries, marking a barrier between different social groups and regional characteristics. Now a...
View ArticleAdèle Naudé Santos, dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, to step...
Today, Adèle Naudé Santos, dean of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P), announced to the school’s faculty that after 10 years as dean, she has decided to step down and return to the...
View ArticleMapping the New York fashion scene, minute by minute
A new study shows New York fashion designers don’t just flock to trends: They also do nearly all their business within the confines of the city’s historic Garment District.Study co-authors Sarah...
View Article3 Questions: JoAnn Carmin on helping cities plan for climate change
Because cities hold a growing portion of the world’s population, they are an increasingly important locus of planning for climate change. JoAnn Carmin, an associate professor in MIT’s Department of...
View ArticleSocial media’s ‘law’ of short messages
In the last year or two, you may have had some moments — during elections, sporting events, or weather incidents — when you found yourself sending out a flurry of messages on social media sites such as...
View ArticleWhy cutting-edge medical technology may not lead to exploding health care costs
Sophisticated medical imaging is often cited as a leading driver of health care costs. The increasing availability of techniques such as computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and...
View ArticleDUSP, Consensus Building Institute team awarded grant for climate change...
A research team from MIT and the Consensus Building Institute (CBI) have been jointly awarded a two-year, $637,000 grant to help build role-play simulations to help local residents and community...
View ArticleInspired ideas to improve the world
Several students from the School of Architecture + Planning were members of winning teams this year in a series of competitions awarding grants for startup enterprises, mostly aimed at addressing...
View ArticleDesigning with damaged land
A new website will be launched in September at waste2place.com that provides a layman’s portal to a wealth of information about the reclamation of abandoned mine sites in the United States. Designed...
View ArticleCustomizing your cityhome in the sky
Researchers in the Changing Places group at the Media Lab are developing tools for the customization of standardized urban housing that allow residents to design the optimal living space for their...
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In profile: Chris Zegras
Christopher ZegrasPhoto: Dominick Reuter When Chris Zegras started studying the way cities work, in the early 1990s, it wasn’t in a classroom, and he wasn’t pursuing a formal academic project. Instead,...
View ArticleInauguration festivities off to a stimulating start
The four days of festivities celebrating the inauguration of President L. Rafael Reif got off to an information-intensive start this morning, with a symposium at Kresge Auditorium called “Infinite...
View ArticleNew books on the shelf from SA+P
Listed below, recent books by faculty of the MIT School of Architecture + Planning. For descriptions of each, and a listing (at least partial) of books by SA+P alumni, visit the SA+P site.Stanford...
View ArticlePrograms for green cities
This article first appeared in Energy Futures: Spring 2012, the magazine of the MIT Energy Initiative. Subscribe today. In cities across the country, bike-sharing plans, tree-planting initiatives, and...
View ArticleMIT a linchpin of major new USAID program
MIT will receive up to $25 million in funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as part of a new five-year project intended to fight poverty by developing and...
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