**Effects of Climate Change Related Disasters on Housing This research focuses on the impacts of climate change-related disasters on housing, with a particular focus on low-income renters. This research analyzes how these acute...
*Emergency Medical Services and Health Equity The vision for this project is to draw from the experiences of those on the frontline of health care in low-income communities, first, to better understand social and...
A pedestrian volume model for Maine towns In collaboration with MaineDOT, the MIT City Form Lab is developing the first statewide pedestrian volume model for Maine. While Maine has long maintained vehicular traffic...
Autonomous Mobility The advent of autonomous-vehicle (AV) technology promises to upend urban mobility and transportation policy. Yet this technology, as well as its possible social and...
Building Collective Power & Climate Justice Through Community Ownership of Distributed Energy Resources The energy transition, away from a nearly-fully fossil fuel-based system and towards a renewable future, is happening. This research project aims to build a deeper, applied...
Building decarbonization: decision-making and real estate market responses This project investigates how trade wars and geopolitical tensions are reshaping Asia’s urban and environmental geography through major shifts in global value chains. As...
Catalyzing Equitable Climate Investments: Green Banks in Chicago and Philadelphia The push for the clean energy transition occurs in the context of American cities that continue to face disinvestment in black and brown communities. An important leverage...
Cities of a Warming North This project seeks to understand the challenges and opportunities facing small- to mid-sized cities in traditionally colder climates as they adapt to new migration & economic...
City Scanner City Scanner proposes a drive-by solution to capture the spatiotemporal variation in environmental indicators in urban areas, such as air quality or the thermal flux of the...
Climate and Real Estate Hub The real estate sector is responsible for 40% of all carbon emissions globally. At the same time, with the built environment at risk to fire, flooding, hurricane, extreme heat...
Climate Change and Global Sentiment What is the impact of climate events, such as temperature increases and environmental disasters, on subjective wellbeing and happiness? This project aims at addressing this...
Climate Crisis and Real Estate: Science-based Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies This project employs a data-driven empirical approach to unpack the behavioral and economic mechanisms in the climate change and real estate dynamics, to provide scientific...
Climate Planning Forum An initiative by DUSP Students & Fellows: to ensure our planet remains habitable, multiple disciplines must come together with a coherent approach for managing change. The...
Co-creating a Theory of Change for Anti-Racist Research Co-Creating a Theory of Change for Anti-Racist Research is a collaborative initiative between MIT and PowerCorps Boston (PowerCorpsBOS), supported by the Racially Just...
Co-Designing Digital Tools to Support Justice for Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People This project unfolds against the backdrop of systemic drivers of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People (MMIW/P), as well as the solutions-oriented frameworks posed...
Community Ownership of Renewable Energy Projects Considering the needs of all stakeholders, including community leaders, government officials, industry leaders, Tribal leaders, and researchers, this project aims to...
Dust Tracker Can we use cars to follow dust events? In this project, the team works with a local mining community in Sparwood, British Columbia to deploy a drive-by sensing platform to map...
Effects of Climate Change Related Disasters on Low-Income Renters This research focuses on the impacts of climate change related disasters, particularly on low-income renters. This research seeks to understand how these acute events effect...
Electricity Market Institutions and Governance This book project focuses on new and emerging alternatives for users of the electric grid to participate in and govern this system. For much of its history, the electric grid...
Emergency Medical Services and Health Equity The vision for this project is to identify, from the experiences of those on the frontline of health care in low-income communities, how to improve health equity, first by...
Empowering Indigenous communities: A framework for climate resilience and migration planning in La Guajira, Colombia This project seeks to tackle the pressing issue of water and food shortages in Maicao, a region in Northern Colombia severely affected by drought due to climate change. This...
GTFS toolbox for ArcGIS Pro The City Form Lab has released a free and open-source GIS toolbox for ArcGIS Pro for computing spatial accessibility via public transport using GTFS data. The toolbox computes...
Healthy Neighborhoods Study The Healthy Neighborhoods Study (HNS), based in Boston, is the largest resident-driven, participatory action research project in the US about neighborhood change processes...
Indigenous Community Planning The Indigenous Community Planning project in DUSP is a multi-disciplinary research and teaching effort that seeks to center Indigeneity within the field of urban planning...
Industrial Remix: Reimagining Urban Manufacturing in Mexico City A multi-year collaboration to address key challenges facing urban regions, including energy transition, equitable development, and sustainability. The project focuses on the...
Industrial Urbanism: Places of Production INDUSTRIAL URBANISM suggests that economics-driven frameworks of industry be extended into an analysis that includes the physical environment and city-building. Such a...
Industry Agglomeration and Innovation-Driven Economic Growth: A Framework for Data, Metrics, and Evaluation Glasmeier and Lynch are pioneering the analysis of the geographies of investment in current federal programs and policies, including the National Science Foundation’s Regional...
Leveraging Transit Data for Behavioral Insights The JTL-Transit Lab has worked with leading transit agencies around the world to derive unique insights into passenger behavior from transit smartcards and other automatic...
Malden River Works The objective of the Malden River Works project is to bring together a new coalition of community leaders of color, environmental advocates, and government stakeholders in...
Mens, Manus and Machina (M3S) The Singapore MIT-Alliance for Research and Technology ( SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, has launched a new interdisciplinary research group aimed at tackling...
Mobility in the 15-Minute City The project uses large scale urban mobility data sets derived by cell phone data to quantify to what extent US cities are conforming to the 15-min city vision, according to...
Next Optimized Generation of Autonomous Suburbs (NOGAS) Autonomous driving (AD) and other automation technologies are rapidly approaching the market and could alter practically every structural aspect of household life established...
Pa’ashi Park: Reclaiming the Lake of California’s Tulare Lake Basin, Guided by Two-Eyed Seeing This project investigates nature-based climate adaptation as a form of reparative planning that responds to the environmental and social damage caused by land reclamation...
Pedestrian Impact Assessment This project builds a high-resolution model of pedestrian activity within a city, offering a novel framework to evaluate how planned urban development projects or public space...
Political Economy of the Climate Crisis: Institutions, Power and Global Governance This project takes a political economy approach to climate change, enabling an explicit focus on institutions, power and global governance. It centers on three interrelated...
Projections 18: Planning for Polycrisis We live in a time of “polycrisis”: multiple protracted, compounded, and interconnected crises that produce conditions of profound uncertainty, volatility, and fragility in...
Public Transportation Management and Policy Building on early definitions of the term as describing interwoven crises, scholars more recently have sought to specify polycrisis in terms of harm, its global scope, and...
Renewable Energy Siting Clinic Meeting U.S. decarbonization goals necessitates a rapid transition to renewable energy. Understanding sources of local resistance and transforming the facility siting process...
Restoring Metro Boston Transit Ridership This project seeks to understand transit ridership declines as a result of COVID-19 and identify interventions that will be most effective in restoring ridership in Metro...
Re“casting” climate anthropocene in the context of Modern India The research conducted as part of the RJRI project focused on mapping caste-based inequalities and socio-spatial segregation patterns in the context of climate-related...
Roboat Roboat imagines a future where autonomous waterborne platforms can serve as on-demand urban infrastructure. Working at the intersection of robotics, urban design, and...
Shrinking Cities in Northeast China and the Rust Belt US: A transnational comparison This project, a collaboration between Professor Brent D. Ryan of MIT, Professor Shuqi Gao of Southeast University, Nanjing, China, and Professor Ying Long of Tsinghua...
Sidewalk Ballet Why do some streets attract more social activities than others? Is it the design of the street, or is it the land use pattern within neighborhoods that allows businesses...
Sustainable Urbanization Around three and a half billion people live in cities today and approximately five billion people are projected to live in cities by 2030. Though world's cities occupy just...
The BostonWalks This paper introduces the BostonWalks (BWS) study, detailing its methodology, the resulting dataset, and an initial analysis. The BWS study is a smartphone-based GNSS-tracking...
The Consumed City Once the heart of a powerful maritime republic, Venice’s historic city has lost more than 120,000 residents since the early 1950s, driven away by myriad issues, including...
The DUSP Center for Renewable Energy and Climate Justice The Center for Renewable Energy and Climate Justice is housed in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP). It is dedicated to advancing renewable energy...
The Equitably Resilient City This book, released on October 1, 2024--and available for purchase or Open Access free download from MIT Press, presents a framework for simultaneously making cities more...
The Public Interest Technologist MIT is part of the 66 university Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN). Professor Larry Susskind is MIT's official representative to the Network. We are...
The Reshaping of Economic Geography in Asia This project analyzes how rapid urbanization, environmental change, and shifting industrial structures are reshaping the economic geography of Asian cities. Using high...
The Value of Transit This research, conducted in the Chicago, San Francisco, and Seattle areas, quantifies the many benefits that arise from the role of public transit in large metropolitan areas...
Transit Access: Improving Walking and Biking to Commuter Rail Stations in Greater Boston Pedestrian- and bicycle path-choice studies have shown that people's perception of distance can substantially differ from objectively measured distance. For instance, walking...
Transit-Centric Smart Mobility System for High-Growth Urban Activity Centers: Improving Energy Efficiency through Machine Learning A US Department of Energy sponsored project with teams from Northeastern University, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the Chicago Transit Authority, and MIT. The MIT...
Trash to Treasure: Landfill Landscape, Planning, Design and Development This project explores the transformation of Bordo Poniente—once one of the world’s largest landfills—into a model for ecological restoration, renewable energy generation, and...
West Philadelphia Landscape Project Since 1987, the West Philadelphia Landscape Project (WPLP) has worked in the Mill Creek watershed and neighborhood. Our mission is to restore nature and rebuild community...
