Urban studies and planning

A map showing Regional Mitigation Clusters that enable North-South cooperation and peer-to-peer monitoring and enforcement of greenhouse gas emissions reductions.

Toward a global consensus on climate

A winning proposal to restructure emission reduction efforts

June 15, 2011

Jinan Railway Station in the Shandong Province of China.

3 Questions: Dennis Frenchman on making cities sustainable

How the form of urban spaces adds to the energy they use.

June 15, 2011

A roof in the Alberta community of Tuscaloosa, Ala., rests on the ground after tornadoes swept through the region in late April.

3 Questions: Amy Glasmeier on rebuilding after disaster hits

From tornadoes to flooding, nature has taken a heavy toll in America this year. What are the challenges cities like Joplin and Tuscaloosa will face while rebuilding?

June 1, 2011

Fine-grained, high-density, mixed-use carefully oriented to the sun.

Making clean-energy cities

A new set of tools for designers and developers

May 10, 2011

Through his teaching, writing and practice, Walter J. Hood Jr. advocates the art of ‘improvisation’ as a design process for making urban landscapes and architecture.

Hood appointed first Taylor Fellow

Visiting professor is an award-winning landscape architect and urban designer

March 31, 2011

The four MacVicar fellows for 2011 were honored at a reception at Gray House on March 8. Top row: Bishwapriya (Bish) Sanyal, left, and Patrick Winston. Bottom row: Christopher Schuh, left, and George Verghese.

Four professors named MacVicar fellows

Sanyal, Schuh, Verghese and Winston honored for undergraduate teaching excellence

March 9, 2011

A building in Chicago's Cabrini-Green development is demolished in February 2010.

Chicago hope

Ambitious attempt to help the city’s poor by moving them out of troubled housing projects is having mixed results, MIT study finds.

March 3, 2011

A member of the Rede CataSampa waste-pickers cooperative demonstrates the filtration system for waste vegetable oil that was set up with the help of MIT students.

In the World: Turning old oil into new mileage

Brazilian waste pickers gain an inexpensive way to fuel their vehicles using leftover cooking oil.

February 24, 2011

CIS's Précis examines research, student work

Late fall edition of the biannual publication now available.

December 20, 2010

Chase Community Development Award winners receive their award at the event in New Orleans on Nov. 30

Two MIT teams design winning solutions for New Orleans

DUSP and architecture graduate students claim top prizes in the Chase Community Development Competition.

December 6, 2010

Phillip Clay PhD '75, MIT’s chancellor since 2001, has decided to step down from his position. He will remain chancellor until a replacement is found.

Chancellor Phillip L. Clay to step down

Hailed by President Hockfield as ‘an exceptional leader,’ he leaves a remarkable record of achievement.

November 2, 2010

Plantain vendors in the Bazurto market, which spills onto the streets of Cartagena, Colombia.

Market research

A major South American city needs to rebuild its public food market. MIT researchers went on the ground to figure out how urban food systems work.

October 25, 2010

Students will not only be using pre-built simulations, but also creating their own. Pictured here, the StarLogo TNG program code, expressed by the puzzle piece blocks, underlying a model of ecology and evolution, and the resulting 3-D simulation.

Teaching biology with technology

Klopfer awarded $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to improve high school teaching

October 18, 2010

DUSP presents lectures on inequality

Fall speaker series explores social imbalances in city life.

October 14, 2010

James Wescoat, the Aga Khan Professor of Architecture

In Profile: James Wescoat

From India to California, an MIT landscape architect and geographer has charted a new course in the study of water.