Urban studies and Planning at MIT is organized around the following core questions of engagement and progressive change: "Can we make a difference in the world? Can we design better cities? Can we help places grow more sustainably? Can we help communities thrive? Can we help advance equitable world development?"
On November 30, 2011, over 50 professors and students from RISD, MIT, and Harvard met to hear about Dr. Annette Kim's latest research project and to discuss how to bring about greater synergies between the visual design and social science research ends of urban ...
Economics and the Sustainable City Thursday, November 3, 2011, 5:00-7:00pm MIT 3-133 Three urban economists discuss how economic principles will help cities to create a smaller environmental footprint. David Albouy, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of ...
During 2011-2012, the Department of Urban Studies & Planning will host a series of high-profile speakers and panels on a wide-range of topics related to the future of cities, planning, participation, economies, technology, design, and development. This series is ...
Trans_Local Emil RodrÃguez Garabot MIT- Humphrey Fellow, Dominican Republic 2010-2011. "The Mirador Sur Park and the 1998 Tsunami False Alarm" Anticipation, mobilization and outrageousness for a new ecological urbanity in Santo Domingo . Trans_National Deepak ...
Students from MIT's Biodiesel team organized the Green Grease project to help garbage pickers in Brazil save money and be more environmentally friendly by retrofitting their transport vehicles. In summer 2010, the team traveled to Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sopheap is a senior program coordinator for Habitat for Humanity Cambodia. He has an MBA from Preston University in Cambodia. He is interested in aspects of urban and regional planning that have applications at the community level. After MIT he will use his knowledge, skills and experiences ...
Slawek is an urban designer with over ten years of professional experience. He currently runs his own company and teaches at Gdansk University of Technology. His PhD research was on the "Impact of Shopping Centers on Downtowns". At MIT he is interested in city design and development, ...
Shabnum is a senior urban planner with the Government of Punjab. She holds two Master's degrees, one in City and Regional Planning from UET and Hariot-Watt University, Lahore, Pakistan and the other in Environmental Management & Development from the Australian National University, in ...
Emil is an architect with a Masters degree in Urbanism from the Polytechnic University of Barcelona, where he is also completing his doctoral work. He has worked as an urban designer and planner for private companies in the Dominican Republic, Spain, The UAE, China, ...
Fatima is a municipal engineer in Casablanca, Morocco's largest city. She obtained her Diploma in Civil Engineering with a specialization in Urban Engineering from the Ecole Hassania des Travaux Publics in Casablanca. She is also the head of a neighborhood team for a ...
Zaynab is an architect, planner and a faculty member in the Department of Architecture, University of Baghdad. She has a Master's degree in Urban and Regional Planning Sciences from the University of Baghdad. At MIT she intends to study digital technologies that analyze the effectiveness of ...
'Bah' has been engaged in analytical and environmental chemistry for over thirty years. He has a PhD degree in Analytical Chemistry from Dakar University, Senegal, and a Master's degree in Chemical Engineering from the Technical University of Saint Petersburg, Russia. His current research ...
Abdi is a professor in the Economic and Management Department at the University of Djibouti. He holds a PhD degree in Management and a Master's degree in Management Science from the University of Strasbourg. He works as an adviser to the National Secretary of Solidarity, Dijibouti. At MIT he ...
Eva is an urban planner and a public/private consultant. She has a Master's degree in Architecture from the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava. At MIT she is interested in gaining new knowledge on urban development processes, the relationships between stakeholders, and how public ...
Fan is director of the land planning division of the local government land administration bureau in Zhejiang province, China. She has a PhD in Agricultural Economics and Management and a Master's degree from Zhejiang University.At MIT, she will focus on the relationship between government and ...
Zhang is a lecturer at the Institute for Architecture and Technology Studies in the School of Architecture at Tsinghua University. He has a PhD in Architecture from the same. At MIT and beyond, his primary research focus is on Building Information Modeling (BIM). He is also interested in ...
Christian is currently a member of the board of CEAMSE, a waste management company in Buenos Aires. He has a BA in Political Science at the Catholic University of Argentina. He is the vice-president of the Peronist Party in Buenos Aires, where he was also a municipal legislator. While at MIT ...
Paula is an industrial engineer specializing in management, biodiversity and culture. She was formerly the Minister of Culture of Colombia. She has an MPhil degree in Management Studies at the University of Cambridge and a degree in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad Autonoma de ...
Mahbooba is an engineering/planning officer on a USAID/LTERA (Land Titling Economic Restructuring of Afghanistan) project to increase cooperation between municipalities and the Ministry of Urban Development Planning. She has a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Technology from the Engineering ...
Session 5: Terrorism and the challenge to secularism and rule of law Chair and Discussant: Omar Khalidi, MIT 3:20-3:35PM "Terrorism and the challenge of advocacy for Human Rights" Meenakshi Ganguly,Human Rights Watch, Mumbai 3:50-4:05PM "Terrorism and the Media ...
