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?"
Without much national fanfare, Chicago has transformed itself into a paragon of green virtue.
2012 CDD Forum: Shrinking Cities Jill Desimini is a landscape architect and an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Her research focuses on landscape strategies for shrinking cities in North America. ...
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 ...
Department of Urban Studies and Planning Professor Xavier de Sousa Briggs presents a lecture as part of the Transportation@MIT speaker series.
An interview with MIT Professor Phil Freelon about his firm's exhibit "REACH", showing in the Wolk Gallery from February 15 - June 8, 2012.
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 ...
Will New Orleans rise again, and if so, in what form? Lawrence J. Vale offers both comfort and caution. "In the last 200 years, there has been almost no case of a major city anywhere that hasn't been rebuilt after a major disaster," he says. Whether post-bomb ...
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 ...
Ryan Chin is a Research Specialist and PhD Candidate at the MIT Media Lab. His research in urban mobility systems addresses the energy and mobility problems of 21st century cities such as energy efficiency, congestion, urban land-use, and carbon emissions leading to ...
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 ...
The Site & Urban Systems Planning course at the MIT Department of Urban Studies & Planning is planning Boston's bicycle system and completing the city's streets. Final presentations at BU's Jacob Sleeper Hall (871 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA) on May 20, 2010 from 5-7pm.
April 4, 12.30-2 PM, Room 9-354 | Speaker: Jiawen Yang Sustaining Personal Mobility in Urbanizing China | Discussant: Joseph Ferreira China's massive population, high density and fast economic development produce huge demand for transportation investment. For now, ...
