Students Win APA Economic Development Scholarship

Submitted by Site Admin on Sat, 08/11/2012 - 6:40pm

Three DUSP students -- Seema Adina, Kira Intrator, and Lindsay Reul, all second-year MCPs -- are the joint winners of the American Planning Association Economic Development Division's 2012 Graduate scholarship, for their paper "Wealth Creation Through Sustainable Forestry: Generating Wealth Creation Models in the Appalachian Wood Products Industry." Their paper combines analysis of value chain and supply chain to identify strategies that would capture environmental and economic benefits for communities.

Why Cutting-Edge Medical Technology May Not Lead to Exploding Health Care Costs

Submitted by Ezra Glenn on Sat, 08/11/2012 - 6:38pm

A new study published in August issue of Health Affairs, co-authored by DUSP Professor Frank Levy, finds that the growth of sophisticated medical imaging technology has slowed, suggesting that the diffusion of technology does not necessarily lead to steadily increasing health care costs. The story is featured on the MIT News page: see http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/advanced-medical-imaging-and-health-c....

Addressing Climate Change Risk Through Role Play Simulations

Submitted by Ezra Glenn on Sat, 08/11/2012 - 6:35pm

The Science Collaborative Program of the National Estuarine Research Reserve System (a partnership of NOAA and the coast states) has awarded a two-year, $637,000 grant to MIT and the Consensus Building Institute (CBI). The funds will be used to help build the capacity of coastal communities to address climate change risk.

Specializations

Specializations

While the intellectual life of the Department is organized around particular program groups, and students are asked to select an area of specialization, there is a great deal of room for cross-over and flexibility in individual student programs. There are four areas of specialization (also called Program Groups), which reflect major types of planning practice:

Research

The first decade of the Twenty-First Century has seen dramatic shifts in our global urbanized environments and cities. Developed countries have experienced rapid urbanization around their edges and deindustrialization in their cores, which are challenging historical models of city form and function. In the United States alone there is a record amount of blighted and vacant land surface available in urbanized areas that needs to be reimagined and retrofitted for productive uses.

Undergraduate

The undergraduate program offers an interdisciplinary Bachelor of Science (SB) major designed to prepare students for careers in both the public and private sectors. The major also provides a foundation for students intending to do graduate work in law, public policy, development, urban design, management, and planning. The subjects in the major teach students the ways in which the tools of economics, policy analysis, political science, and design can be brought to bear on critical social and environmental problems in the US and abroad.

Site Credits

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Research

IDG students examine the roles planners and researchers play at various levels, ranging from working in international institutions to the national, regional, city or local levels. The faculty cover issues that range from allocating resources regionally and sectorally to examining urban, regional, and national socioeconomic impacts of major public and/or private investments; from solving the problems of squatter housing to analyzing issues of un- and under-employment, and municipal finance, metropolitan sprawl, and social disparities at a variety of scales.

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