How hard is it to 'de-anonymize' cellphone data?
A new formula that characterizes the privacy afforded by large, aggregate data sets may be discouraging, but could help sharpen policy discussion.
Creating tomorrow's home: 'Soft' but resilient
MIT-led team’s award-winning housing design unveiled as part of 21st-century model for sustainable urban development
Researchers awarded $3.7 million for research on sustainable development of Kuwait’s built environment
Grant sponsored through the Kuwait-MIT Center for Natural Resources and the Environment
Boyden to share prestigious brain prize
Ed Boyden honored for his work on optogenetics; will share 1 million Euro prize with five other researchers.
SA+P news digest goes mobile
School of Architecture + Planning unveils new app for smartphones and digital tablets
Visiting artists enrich life at MIT
Visiting artists share their work in architecture, planning, visual literacy and filmmaking.
Reducing wasted energy in commercial buildings
Much energy is wasted heating and cooling indoor spaces when no one or almost no one is present. Now, MIT researchers have used their own campus to demonstrate a means of measuring that energy/occupancy mismatch.
SA+P faculty, alumni make their mark in TED
A collection of TEDTalks videos featuring researchers and innovators with ties to MIT's School of Architecture + Planning.
Embracing change and innovation at DUSP
A chat with Eran Ben-Joseph, the new head of MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning.
Tweeting the city
In 2012, the School of Architecture + Planning conducted a series of real-time interactive forums on urban issues.
The right’s resistance to regulation
Book details how conservatives have changed the terms of the environmental debate in recent decades.
A flow of creativity
MIT’s Gediminas Urbonas emerged from the old Soviet Union to produce new art in Cambridge.