3 Questions: JoAnn Carmin on helping cities plan for climate change
MIT professor is studying, and reporting on, the challenges facing a cross-section of global cities as they brace for the future.
Mapping the New York fashion scene, minute by minute
A new study uses social media to show how New York’s fashion industry still centers on just a few blocks of Manhattan.
Adèle Naudé Santos, dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, to step down
Ten-year tenure marked by an invigorated faculty, consolidated space, increased applications; Reif applauds ‘her remarkable eye for talent’
Telecommunications data show civic dividing lines in major countries
New study uses network data to show communication patterns and divisions in many major nations.
3 Questions: Alan Berger on cities and health
New report from MIT’s Center for Advanced Urbanism examines the best ways to help public health in metropolitan areas.
The ‘Great Rent Wars’ of New York
Historian Robert Fogelson’s new book uncovers the origins of rent control in a World War I-era fight between tenants and landlords for control of New York real estate.
SA+P students sweep visual arts awards
Honors for work that incorporates both old and new technologies
Real estate forum features talk on value of design
MIT places second in this year's CASE competition
Helping build cities through anchor institutions
Leveraging nonprofit resources to improve local economies
Energy and the developing world
New student group aims to raise awareness about the developing world’s energy crisis.
An entrepreneur aims to work in Africa
Graduate student Sarah Dimson is hatching plans for renewable energy and affordable housing in Tanzania.