Urban studies and planning

New books from the School of Architecture + Planning

Addressing the environment, cities, architecture, angry people and ‘Creative Magic’

September 28, 2011

A movement is afoot to extend SA+P's commitment to New Orleans still further by developing a Living Laboratory at MIT, designed for undergraduates from all five schools at the Institute.

Still rebuilding New Orleans

SA+P’s sustained commitment seeks to extend still further

September 7, 2011

'Dot Corner: Shared Lives, Shared Knowledge' — Street view along Park Street

School of Architecture + Planning shares top honors in housing competition

Winning teams include students in planning, architecture and real estate

August 12, 2011

Students in a STEP class build 'straw towers' — an activity that program director Eric Klopfer says is really about classroom collaboration, and one that the teachers-in-training could replicate with their own future students.

The science of teacher education

Undergraduate program prepares primary and secondary classroom leaders capable of inspiring their students.

August 3, 2011

Kevin Lynch Award presented to Randolph Hester

Landscape architect/sociologist extends Lynch’s legacy

June 21, 2011

A map showing Regional Mitigation Clusters that enable North-South cooperation and peer-to-peer monitoring and enforcement of greenhouse gas emissions reductions.

Toward a global consensus on climate

A winning proposal to restructure emission reduction efforts

June 15, 2011

Jinan Railway Station in the Shandong Province of China.

3 Questions: Dennis Frenchman on making cities sustainable

How the form of urban spaces adds to the energy they use.

June 15, 2011

A roof in the Alberta community of Tuscaloosa, Ala., rests on the ground after tornadoes swept through the region in late April.

3 Questions: Amy Glasmeier on rebuilding after disaster hits

From tornadoes to flooding, nature has taken a heavy toll in America this year. What are the challenges cities like Joplin and Tuscaloosa will face while rebuilding?

June 1, 2011

Fine-grained, high-density, mixed-use carefully oriented to the sun.

Making clean-energy cities

A new set of tools for designers and developers

May 10, 2011

Through his teaching, writing and practice, Walter J. Hood Jr. advocates the art of ‘improvisation’ as a design process for making urban landscapes and architecture.

Hood appointed first Taylor Fellow

Visiting professor is an award-winning landscape architect and urban designer

March 31, 2011

The four MacVicar fellows for 2011 were honored at a reception at Gray House on March 8. Top row: Bishwapriya (Bish) Sanyal, left, and Patrick Winston. Bottom row: Christopher Schuh, left, and George Verghese.

Four professors named MacVicar fellows

Sanyal, Schuh, Verghese and Winston honored for undergraduate teaching excellence

March 9, 2011

A building in Chicago's Cabrini-Green development is demolished in February 2010.

Chicago hope

Ambitious attempt to help the city’s poor by moving them out of troubled housing projects is having mixed results, MIT study finds.

March 3, 2011

A member of the Rede CataSampa waste-pickers cooperative demonstrates the filtration system for waste vegetable oil that was set up with the help of MIT students.

In the World: Turning old oil into new mileage

Brazilian waste pickers gain an inexpensive way to fuel their vehicles using leftover cooking oil.

February 24, 2011

CIS's Précis examines research, student work

Late fall edition of the biannual publication now available.

December 20, 2010

Chase Community Development Award winners receive their award at the event in New Orleans on Nov. 30

Two MIT teams design winning solutions for New Orleans

DUSP and architecture graduate students claim top prizes in the Chase Community Development Competition.

December 6, 2010

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