The purpose of the course is to cultivate the sensibilities necessary for effective planning practice. This objective rests on one key assumption: that a set of key...

The Department of Urban Studies and Planning's podcast focused on exploring emerging trends, challenges, and innovations in the field of urban planning. Guests regularly...

This seminar introduces students to core writings in the field of urban sociology and explores the creative dialectic—and sometimes conflict—between sociology and urban policy...

This online course examines what constitutes a city, how it is shaped, and how history influences future development. These issues are explored through lectures, readings...

The primary goal of these resources and programming, created as part of a larger initiative to expand climate justice education at MIT, is to provide support to faculty...

Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve health outcomes, and topple governments. But it has also been used to discriminate...

Using film as a lens to explore and interpret various aspects of the urban experience in both the U.S. and abroad, this course presents a survey of important developments in...

Geographic Information System (GIS) software manages data that represent the location of features (geographic coordinate data) and what they are like (attribute data); it also...

As scientific and data-driven methods for spatial analysis have become increasingly rooted in urban planning research, this lecture series explores whether and how the...

The 2023 Rez de Ville: In Transition seminar will delve into the evolving dynamics of urban ground floors amidst modern societal, economic, environmental, and technological...