Urban studies and planning

This image is part of the Joël Tettamanti 'Compass Points' exhibit on display at the MIT Museum.

A guide to spring exhibits and events

Information about exhibits related to MIT's School of Architecture + Planning

April 26, 2013

Building the new New Orleans, block by block

MIT urbanist’s new book shows how active neighborhood communities helped revitalize the city after Hurricane Katrina.

April 16, 2013

From left: Paul Mendelsohn, vice president of government and community relations at the American Institute of Architects; Associate Professor Alexander D'Hooghe, director of the Center for Advanced Urbanism; Robert Ivy, CEO of the American Institute of Architects; Adele Naude Santos, dean of the MIT School of Architecture + Planning; professors Alan Berger and Andrew Scott, co-leaders of the Healt...

Designing healthy cities

A joint initiative of SA+P's new Center for Advanced Urbanism and the American Institute of Architects

April 5, 2013

Alexander D’Hooghe, and associate professor of architecture and director of the Center for Advanced Urbanism at MIT.

Building a better big box

MIT architect Alexander D’Hooghe looks to remake suburbs and other neighborhoods with ‘more intelligent’ designs.

March 29, 2013

The Estuarine Power Machine is an engineered landscape nested within the Nervion River Valley. Resembling a public park with a new, dense urban edge, the machine uses its intertidal position in the river to perform all of the region's massive hydrological infrastructure needs.

Introducing the Center for Advanced Urbanism

Creating new models for 21st century cities

March 28, 2013

SA+P news digest goes mobile

School of Architecture + Planning unveils new app for smartphones and digital tablets

February 28, 2013

Commissioned by The Arts Catalyst, Tomas Saraceno's "Poetic Cosmos of the Breath" was launched at dawn on Sept. 22, 2007, at Gunpowder Park, Essex, United Kingdom.

Visiting artists enrich life at MIT

Visiting artists share their work in architecture, planning, visual literacy and filmmaking.

February 19, 2013

Eran Ben-Joseph's most recent book, "ReThinking a Lot," explores the history and potential future of the parking lot.

Embracing change and innovation at DUSP

A chat with Eran Ben-Joseph, the new head of MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

February 4, 2013

Illustration of a city block in which the crossing streets look like a hashtag

Tweeting the city

In 2012, the School of Architecture + Planning conducted a series of real-time interactive forums on urban issues.

January 16, 2013

The right’s resistance to regulation

Book details how conservatives have changed the terms of the environmental debate in recent decades.

January 16, 2013

Erica Lai ’14 (left), of materials science and engineering, and Jennifer Liu ’14, of electrical engineering and computer science, teamed up to monitor the electricity consumption of various devices plugged into outlets in eight rooms in E62, the new MIT Sloan School of Management building.

Measuring MIT’s plug load

Undergrad project offers glimpse of electricity consumption on campus.

January 9, 2013

The color of the road segments in this image represents the number of neighborhoods that are major sources of drivers for that segment. Red is more than 100, yellow is 61 to 100, green is 41 to 60, dark blue is 1 to 20 and purple is none.

Cellphone data helps pinpoint source of traffic tie-ups

Study: Congestion can be alleviated throughout a metropolitan area by altering the trips of drivers in specific neighborhoods.

December 20, 2012

With continuous intermodal sharing and switching along its length, the Shareway Bundle offers options for a new lifestyle in which sharability becomes a new currency.

A winning vision for the future of urban mobility

Yoon and partner awarded grand prize in international competition.

December 18, 2012

A mango crusher in Chipata, Zambia. As part of a design challenge to get more value from mangos, participants in D-Lab's Creative Capacity Building training session built a device for crushing mangos and extracting the juice. This project was part of a D-Lab trip to establish an Appropriate Technology Center with the Peace Corps in 2011.

MIT a linchpin of major new USAID program

Institute researchers aim to spur development and evaluation of useful technologies to help the world’s poor.

November 8, 2012

Programs for green cities

Finding out what works

October 25, 2012

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