Urban studies and planning

Speakers explore resilience of cities post-disaster

October 18, 2005

Faculty ship books to Baghdad

October 5, 2005

Aerial image of Grand Isle, La., taken on Aug. 31, 2005, two days after Hurricane Katrina struck the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Post-hurricanes, MIT gets to work

September 28, 2005

Street map of Graz, Austria, overlaid with an electronic visualization of cellphone activity.

MIT researchers map city by cellphone

September 14, 2005

MIT professors quoted on Hurricane Katrina

September 7, 2005

New index links housing needs to jobs

June 8, 2005

Department of Urban Studies and Planning awards

June 1, 2005

Rendering of a Sri Lankan house designed by an MIT/Harvard team. The structure, which would be built with local materials, is engineered to withstand a tsunami.

MIT team designs tsunami-resistant houses

May 26, 2005

Students plan fact-finding trip to Mozambique

May 16, 2005

MIT report debunks affordable housing myths

April 29, 2005

MIT graduate students in urban planning visit the U.S. Geological Survey. From left: students Anna Brown and Lindsay Campbell; USGS director Charles Groat; students Jennifer Peyser, , Basilia Yao and Peter Brandenburg; and Herman Karl, co-director of the MIT-USGS Science Impact Collaborative.

D.C. trip focuses on resolving environmental disputes

March 30, 2005

MIT to honor Daley for greening city

March 30, 2005

Buddhist monks pray as construction begins of single family houses for tsunami victims.

Buddhists help rebuild Sri Lanka

March 15, 2005

Tsunami puts book and its editors in demand

February 2, 2005

A computer-generated night view of Digital Media Street in Seoul's Digital Media City.

New Century Cities emerging from New York to Seoul