Better traffic signals can cut greenhouse gas emissions
Analysis shows that smarter programming of stoplights could improve efficiency of urban traffic.
Preparing Boston for the "big one"
MIT-SUTD postdoctoral fellow Ornella Iuorio explores structural retrofits to improve earthquake preparedness in Boston’s Back Bay.
Lessons from the MIT Water Club
Urban planning student Isadora Araujo Cruxen is a leader in MIT's Water Club, a forum for discussion and teaching about water technology, policy, and science.
Preemptive design saving cities
Miho Mazereeuw, founder of the Urban Risk Lab, has roots in two countries that have dealt with floods, earthquakes, and typhoons.
Vargas honored in Dubai ceremony
MIT Tata Center alumna's innovative work with public space empowers residents of informal settlements.
MIT Professional Education and Center for Real Estate announce new Certificate in Real Estate Finance and Development
Enrollment open for a five-course certificate program.
The poetics and pragmatics of participatory art
Urban planning, architecture, and art students and practitioners join in a conversation about participatory art led by visiting MIT fellow Mel Chin.
Telling stories using computer science
Senior Shannon Kao’s knack for storytelling informs her research in computer graphics.
MIT-USAID program releases pioneering evaluation of solar lanterns
First report of Comprehensive Initiative on Technology Evaluation offers new framework for assessment.
$118M gift from MIT alumnus will advance socially responsible and sustainable real estate development
Samuel Tak Lee MIT Real Estate Entrepreneurship Lab to include focus on China.
Neither here nor there
MIT's Balakrishnan Rajagopal is helping to map the crisis of displaced peoples.
New way to predict how traffic will flow
Model provides a more accurate tool for city planning, emergency evacuations, tracking disease spread.
Will the new industrial city work?
At MIT symposium, promise of advanced manufacturing suggests new ways to reshape urban space.