Urban Studies and Planning

Researchers are systematically exploring a variety of alternative packaging materials and containers to see which work best, and most cost-effectively, at reducing losses in food aid. Pictured are food aid bags in a Texas warehouse.

Reducing spoilage in food aid shipments

Large-scale tests compare damage from insects and moisture using a variety of containers.

January 6, 2017

New collaboration explores the future of urban housing in Brazil

Initiative links MIT with São Paulo research centers to study affordability and accessibility.

January 4, 2017

Keynote speaker George Hawkins, CEO and general manager of DC Water, presents at the fifth annual MIT Water Summit, hosted by the MIT Water Club.

Students, academics, and entrepreneurs join forces to tackle the future of water utilities

Fifth annual MIT Water Summit brings together interdisciplinary panelists to give multiple perspectives on major issues surrounding the water sector.

December 21, 2016

The fifteen teams that made their pitches included MIT faculty, students, and alumni. Participants came from every major unit of the School of Architecture and Planning, as well as the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Schools of Science and Engineering.

DesignX selects first cohort

Eight student teams join MIT’s newest entrepreneurship accelerator.

December 14, 2016

Elizabeth Reed Yarina (left) and Lillian Jacobson

Urban planning research papers receive Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning honors

Awards recognize exemplary student research and writing by master's degree candidates.

December 9, 2016

Dennis Frenchman, the Class of 1922 Professor of Urban Design and Planning in the School of Architecture and Planning.

3Q: Dennis Frenchman on the rise of innovation districts in Cambridge and beyond

MIT professor explains how “productive neighborhoods” can remake cities.

November 28, 2016

The TechCon conference, hosted by MIT and USAID's Higher Education Solutions Network from Nov. 10 - 12, convened researchers and innovators to collaborate on solving global issues.

At TechCon, science-based solutions for world issues

Innovators and researchers tackle global issues through actionable research and collaboration.

November 15, 2016

Research from Senseable City Lab’s HubCab project on the potential for taxi sharing shows how more than 150 million taxi trips connect the city of New York in a given year. Yellow represents taxi pickups, while blue indicates drop-offs.

A future of shared mobility

MIT and Uber team up to study the potential for shared rides and vehicles to reshape urban mobility.

November 8, 2016

Zixiao Yin is a 2016-2017 Samuel Tak Lee Graduate Fellow and student in urban studies and planning.

Tackling Chinese urban development

Samuel Tak Lee Graduate Fellow Zixiao Yin plans to serve communities back home in Inner Mongolia.

November 4, 2016

Real estate innovation by the numbers

Real Estate Innovation Lab to promote the future of urban development by showing investors how it can work.

November 3, 2016

First row: (l-r) Azra Akšamija, Phillip Clay, Dennis Frenchman, Skylar Tibbits. Second row: (l-r) James Wescoat, Sheila Kennedy, Alan Berger, Kristel Smentek. Third row: (l-r) Brandon Clifford, Brent Ryan, Kevin Esvelt.

New faculty, promotions, and leadership roles in the School of Architecture and Planning

Four join the SA+P faculty, while seven are recognized for work in art, architecture, and urbanism.

October 28, 2016

Why have solar energy costs fallen?

MIT team awarded U.S. Department of Energy grant to investigate cost reductions in solar energy systems.

October 26, 2016

The team behind DesignX, a new design entrepreneurship accelerator from the MIT School of Architecture and Planning: (left to right) Gilad Rosenzweig, executive director for DesignX; Dennis Frenchman, the Class of 1922 Professor of Urban Design and Planning and faculty director of the program; Andrea Chegut, research scientist in the MIT Center for Real Estate and director of the MIT Real Estate I...

Entrepreneurship by design

New DesignX accelerator speeds innovation at the School of Architecture and Planning.

October 17, 2016

Women and children in rural Uganda look on as a service provider from a nearby health center provides malaria tests for communities on the lake's edge.

MIT-USAID program releases supply chain evaluation of malaria diagnostics

Study of malaria rapid diagnostic tests in Uganda assesses scalability, identifies supply chain challenges.

October 13, 2016

“If there's any place that I can do the weird stuff that I like to do, it would be in academia, and it would be at MIT,” says PhD student Lily Bui. “I'm not quite satisfied with being pigeonholed into one role, and I think that's just going to stay the case for the rest of my life.”

Harnessing the power of citizens

PhD student Lily Bui works with communities around the world to gather data from the bottom up.

October 12, 2016

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