Book celebrates MIT urban planning projects that solve real-world problems
"Planning Practice" documents a decade of workshops and studios in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Urban Studies and Planning
MIT named No. 1 university worldwide for architecture, No. 2 for art and design
QS World University Rankings give top ratings to MIT in architecture, arts programs.
When slower is faster
Study: Communicating vehicles could ease through intersections more efficiently.
Architecture symposium March 30 and 31: Exploring the campus then, now, next
Event welcomes more than 20 speakers over four sessions on designing places for inventing the future.
Visible hand
Startup meshes crowdfunding and bond markets to change how cities are builtWith Neighborly, Jase Wilson meshes crowdfunding and bond markets to change how cities are built.
Dispatches from the Paris climate talks
MIT attendees of COP21 share experiences, perspectives on outcomes
Missed opportunities
Health problems for children prevent families from moving to higher-income neighborhoods.
Water management in a changing environment
MIT Water Summit presents insights, innovations, and solutions to protect our world’s most abundant natural resource.
Rethinking urban life beyond the central city
Associate professor of architecture and urbanism Rafi Segal envisions “dispersed cities” designed to provide greater sociability and sustainability.
Illuminating urban planning
Jennifer Light studies how Cold War military analysis and New Deal resource analysis shaped cities.
Envisioning the future of water for 900 million people
Research from an MIT Tata Center team led by Professor James Wescoat is making strategic planning of India's rural water systems possible for the first time.
MIT named No. 1 university worldwide for social sciences
Times Higher Education ranks MIT’s social sciences the best in the world.
Game for climate adaptation
MIT-led project shows a new method to help communities manage climate risks.
Real-time epidemiology from urban wastewater
MIT and Kuwait researchers have been awarded $4 million to fund Underworlds, a study of real-time epidemiology using biomarkers in urban sewage.