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A view of the new U.S. DOT Volpe building as seen from Binney Street looking west.

First step on Volpe parcel planned for 2019

Building and landscape designs for new federal building are now complete.

February 5, 2019

Zhengdong New District the site of one of MIT’s ambitious and imaginative international projects.

Zhengzhou: China's living laboratory for urbanization

A new MIT program in the planned Chinese city offers opportunities for observation and collaboration.

December 6, 2018

Boeing will be Kendall Square Initiative’s first major tenant

New research presence will serve to advance innovation in the aerospace industry and shape East Campus gateway.

August 1, 2018

Siqi Zheng is an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning whose work examines the dynamic connections between what she calls urban “vibrancy” — economic and job growth, for instance — and urban “amenities,” such as transit, clean air, schools, housing, and restaurants.

The city is her lab

Siqi Zheng studies the economics of China’s urban explosion.

July 3, 2018

Dennis Frenchman, the Class of 1922 Professor of Urban Design and Planning, is the newly appointed director of the MIT Center for Real Estate.

Dennis Frenchman named head of the MIT Center for Real Estate

Architect and urban designer brings to the role decades of global expertise on the transformation of cities

July 2, 2018

MIT startup teams meet with Chinese industry partners at the China Future City Lab demo day.

China Venture Workshop announces first cohort

Ten teams will collaborate with local partners, pilot solutions to urban challenges.

May 31, 2018

Measuring the economy with location data

Startup’s platform crunches anonymized smartphone GPS data to understand how people shop, work, and live.

March 27, 2018

East Pacific Center Towers, Shenzhen, China.

New connector helps faculty, student startups launch in China

The new connector helps faculty, students, and alumni launch startups in China.

February 14, 2018

David Geltner (left), a professor of real estate finance, and postdoc Alexander van de Minne are helping translate masses of data into predictive tools for investors.

Turning real estate data into decision-making tools

New Real Estate Price Dynamics Research Platform from the MIT Center for Real Estate offers predictive power to investors.

December 22, 2017

Kendall Square will soon be the home of the new Roche Brothers grocery store.

MIT’s One Broadway Building to be the future home of Brothers Marketplace

Announcement delivers on a key commitment by the Institute to the Cambridge community.

December 14, 2017

Lihong "Wendy" Duan, manager of the Asia Pacific Energy Partnership Program at the MIT Energy Initiative, and Singh Intrachooto, chief advisor of MQDC’s Research and Innovation for Sustainability Center, shake hands during a signing ceremony to launch the collaboration.

Collaborating to cut emissions in the property sector

Bangkok-based property developer MQDC is joining the MIT Energy Initiative’s Low-Carbon Energy Center for Electric Power Systems Research.

December 5, 2017

MIT Associate Provost Richard Lester, left, during the launch of the China Future City Lab, Friday, November 17, 2017. Lester welcomed executives from the lab's group of founding partners at a formal signing ceremony.

MIT launches China Future City Lab

New urban studies program to spur research and innovation in China.

November 20, 2017

A rendering of the open space as imagined in a site plan example, from the corner of Third Street and Broadway. Key features include public gathering spaces, retail kiosks, and water representing the continuation of Broad Canal.

Cambridge City Council approves MIT’s Volpe zoning petition

The 14-acre underutilized parcel in Kendall Square is set to be reimagined as a vibrant community.

October 23, 2017

Pictured from left: Siqi Zheng, Samuel Tak Lee Associate Professor and faculty director of China Future City Lab; Bin Yang, vice president and provost of Tsinghua University; Martin Schmidt, MIT provost; Richard Lester, MIT associate provost for international activities; Zhengzhen Tan, executive director of China Future City Lab

MIT and Tsinghua University sign urban innovation agreement

Future City Innovation Connector to support projects addressing rapid growth of Chinese cities.

September 19, 2017

Texas Army National Guardsmen help Houston residents affected by flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey board a military vehicle. "With an event like this," says MIT associate professor of urban planning Brent Ryan, "it becomes viscerally evident which residential areas are absolutely not safe from even moderate flooding."

3 Questions: Brent Ryan on Hurricane Harvey’s implications for U.S. cities

Stranded in Houston by hurricane floodwaters, an MIT associate professor sees firsthand how design and policy decisions affected the storm’s impact.

September 1, 2017

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