Published April 21, 2025Langley Keyes, professor emeritus and champion of affordable housing, dies at 86 A lifelong advocate for empowering residents of low-income housing to be heard and shape the future of their communities, Keyes centered the importance of practice in academia News City Design and Development Environmental Policy + Planning Housing, Community + Economic Development
Published April 18, 2025Collecting Community Input to Understand Renewable Energy Concerns MIT Renewable Energy Clinic works with a Massachusetts community to identify their concerns and areas of interest for offshore wind News Environmental Policy + Planning
Published April 14, 2025Utilizing Policy, Design, and Architecture to Address Housing Vacancy Interdisciplinary Morgan State and MIT effort seeks to tackle challenges associated with Baltimore City’s vacant properties News City Design and Development Racially Just Research Initiative Housing, Community + Economic Development
Published April 11, 2025Offering Leadership Training to a Global Audience A new DUSP Open Learning MOOC utilizes case studies to build leadership skills for planners News Housing, Community + Economic Development
Published April 4, 2025Reinforcing Our Shared Civic Engagement Third season of the podcast, We Who Engage, examines how faith can support democracy News Housing, Community + Economic Development
Published March 31, 2025DUSP in the Media: March 2025 Recognition for excellence in teaching, research, and blending art with community activism; the changing state of affordable housing and mobility; honoring the contributions News Racially Just Research Initiative Urban Science Environmental Policy + Planning Housing, Community + Economic Development International Development Mobility
Published March 28, 2025Challenging the Myth of Neutrality of Urban Science Paper offers a pathway for establishing a reparative urban science practice, which ceases to perpetuate past harms to seek new futures News Urban Science Housing, Community + Economic Development
Published March 24, 2025Cutting Household Energy Costs An experiment in Amsterdam suggests providing better information to people can help move them out of “energy poverty” News Urban Science
Published March 21, 2025A Body of Knowledge A new MIT class explores the pedagogical possibilities of dance News Environmental Policy + Planning