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.
Biomedical imaging at one-thousandth the cost
Mathematical modeling enables $100 depth sensor to approximate the measurements of a $100,000 piece of lab equipment.
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.
A school as a classroom
Students in the Program in Art, Culture and Technology perform at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art.
Buildings from the institutional investor perspective
Center for Real Estate hosts architects and engineers from the National Association for Real Estate Investment Managers.
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.
$1 million gift launches Distinguished Arts Program at MIT
Gift from philanthropist and entrepreneur Dasha Zhukova will support the MIT Center for Art, Science and Technology.
Charting a new course in Africa
John Fernandez and his colleagues explore urban resource consumption to help guide the development of rapidly growing African cities.
Novel digital design with brick
New design from architecture professor of the practice Sheila Kennedy respects history while advancing state-of-the-art masonry.
