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.
Teaching urban development in the global South
A five-year program to strengthen university teaching materials
Quantifying cities’ emotional effects
A new Web tool could help measure subjective impressions of urban environments, which may have consequences for social behaviors.
Switching stances
MIT graduate student Alexis Sablone balances an athletic career and coursework in architecture.
Symposium takes on urban infrastructure challenges
Inaugural symposium of the Center for Advanced Urbanism is part of a series devoted to design issues facing cities worldwide
Why innovation thrives in cities
Double a city’s population and its economic productivity goes up 130 percent. MIT researchers think they know why.
MIT students, alumni awarded 2013 Fulbright grants
Selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields
The new challenges for urban planners
In MIT talk, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan emphasizes the need for creative urbanism in a time of economic strain.
Are we purging the poorest?
In a new book, MIT urbanist Lawrence Vale examines the downsizing of public housing.
