School of Architecture + Planning shares top honors in housing competition
Winning teams include students in planning, architecture and real estate
The science of teacher education
Undergraduate program prepares primary and secondary classroom leaders capable of inspiring their students.
Kevin Lynch Award presented to Randolph Hester
Landscape architect/sociologist extends Lynch’s legacy
3 Questions: Dennis Frenchman on making cities sustainable
How the form of urban spaces adds to the energy they use.
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?
Hood appointed first Taylor Fellow
Visiting professor is an award-winning landscape architect and urban designer
Four professors named MacVicar fellows
Sanyal, Schuh, Verghese and Winston honored for undergraduate teaching excellence
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.
In the World: Turning old oil into new mileage
Brazilian waste pickers gain an inexpensive way to fuel their vehicles using leftover cooking oil.
CIS's Précis examines research, student work
Late fall edition of the biannual publication now available.
Two MIT teams design winning solutions for New Orleans
DUSP and architecture graduate students claim top prizes in the Chase Community Development Competition.
Chancellor Phillip L. Clay to step down
Hailed by President Hockfield as ‘an exceptional leader,’ he leaves a remarkable record of achievement.
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.