Global survey: Climate change now a mainstream part of city planning
Survey reveals cities are planning for climate change, but still searching for links to economic growth.
A new approach to development in Latin America
Grad student Alba Medina Flores mixes affordable housing with social consciousness
Beneath the skyline
At MIT, politicians, planners, and designers debate the future of infrastructure.
MIT responds to Typhoon Haiyan
Community springs to action after the Philippines’ deadliest natural disaster.
Conference to explore new approaches to urban infrastructure
Keynote Rahm Emanuel to report on Chicago Infrastructure Trust
Social media’s ‘law’ of short messages
Study shows a regular decline in length of social media messaging during public events as the volume of messages increases.
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.