DUSP, CRE, and STL Lab award $1.5 million in first round of faculty research funding
Thirteen grants awarded to MIT faculty and researchers from four different schools.
Department
Urban Studies and Planning
DUSP, CRE, and Samuel Tak Lee Lab welcome inaugural class of fellows
Graduate students arrive to study socially responsible real estate development and global urbanization.
Out of sight and out of mind, sewage can actually tell us a lot about health
PhD student Mariana Matus studies human waste to understand individual and community health.
Urban Studies and Planning welcomes four new faculty for 2015-2016
From public health to environmental policy and planning, diverse new perspectives add to a top-ranked department.
Digital Matatus project makes the invisible visible
Novel research project produces the first map of an informal transportation system in Nairobi.
Building the Living Wage Calculator
Amy Glasmeier explores economic variations by region to shed light on income inequality.
Public Service Center Fellowships program turns 25
For a quarter-century, public service fellowships have inspired MIT students to work with community partners for the betterment of humankind.
Tiny houses could help mitigate a big problem: homelessness
Urban planner Cate Mingoya analyzes the benefits and challenges of tiny house villages.
Data-driven design
MIT-hosted urban planning conference highlights explosion of information on cities.
3 Questions: Jennifer Light on new media and democracy
MIT historian of technology discusses new work examining “digital citizenship.”
3 Questions: Carlo Ratti on big data and health predictions
MIT researcher discusses a new study on correlations among medical problems.
Park to be constructed at Bexley site
Interim plan will provide opportunities for student and faculty installations.
Charles Correa, influential architect and planner, dies at 84
“India’s Greatest Architect” left his mark on MIT and the world.
MIT-Singapore design center creates free software tool to analyze cities as spatial networks
New plugin aids in understanding social and economic consequences of city planning.
3 Questions: Amy Glasmeier on the living wage
MIT professor and expert in regional economies calculates how far salaries stretch.