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We provide our students with an education that combines rigorous academic study and the excitement of discovery with active engagement in the practice of place-making to understand and solve pressing urban and environmental problems. Impact See more updates on how our community changes the world. Published May 13, 2024 Two DUSP Students Named 2024 MAD Design Fellows Leveraging the power of design to explore solutions to challenges in women’s health, metamaterials, AI, disaster resilience, soft robots, sustainability, and more News City Design and Development International Development Published May 10, 2024 Ensuring More Sustainable and Affordable Long-Term Care in the US CoLab led research demonstrates the ability of policy design to address the rising costs of long-term care News Housing, Community + Economic Development Published May 8, 2024 Using Data Science to Address Prohibitively Expensive Housing in Massachusetts Interdisciplinary course empowers students to leverage data analysis and visualization to highlight pathways to ameliorate the housing crisis News City Design and Development Urban Science Housing, Community + Economic Development Published May 6, 2024 A Crossroads for Computing at MIT The MIT Schwarzman College of Computing building will form a new cluster of connectivity across a spectrum of disciplines in computing and artificial intelligence News Urban Science Published May 3, 2024 Developing a Supportive Ecosystem for Muslim Immigrant Women Student incubator project aims to challenge narratives surrounding immigration and empower Muslim women in the workforce News Published May 1, 2024 Perspectives on Contemporary Practice Urban design seminar examines the intersection of theory and practice across scales and spaces News City Design and Development Published April 29, 2024 DUSP in the Media: April 2024 Student team wins national competition, recognition of teaching and practitioner excellence, a new lab in South America, and more updates from the DUSP community News City Design and Development Urban Science Environmental Policy + Planning Housing, Community + Economic Development Published April 26, 2024 From City Planning to College Prep Michael G. Johnson work as a planner and leader is showcased in Kathryn M. O’Neill’s Technology Review profile News Published April 24, 2024 The Impact of Remote Work on how People Travel in the US A new study finds sustained pattern changes — with a lot of regional variation News Urban Science Mobility Mission We prepare leaders to plan, design, and create communities and places that are socially, economically, and environmentally just. We pursue this mission through four evolving strategic priorities: achieving racial justice , enhancing multi-racial democratic governance , tackling the climate crisis , and closing the wealth gap . We aim to fulfill our mission through all aspects of our teaching, research, department culture, and external collaborations. How we are enhancing multi-racial democratic governance view more Cybersecurity for Critical Urban Infrastructure When considering cyber defenses, security professionals and critical infrastructure operators immediately think about technical solutions such as intrusion detection systems... Data Against Feminicide Data Against Feminicide is a feminist participatory action research project led by Catherine D’Ignazio (Data + Feminism Lab @ MIT), Silvana Fumega (ILDA) and Helena Suárez Val... Enhancing Urban Water Affordability Urban households across the United States—and the water departments that serve them—are under tremendous financial pressure to maintain access to safe drinking water... How we are tackling the climate crisis... view more 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... How we are striving to achieve racial justice... view more... 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... Ecological Urbanism Seminar Ecological Urbanism weds the theory and practice of city design and planning, as a means of adaptation, with the insights of ecology and other environmental disciplines... 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... Spatial Equity NYC Spatial equity is a way to understand how public space is distributed and restricted, used and made unusable, and the different outcomes that result for different communities... Hack the Archive A vanguard...