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#MLDubai—Redefining Cities

LocationAlserkal Avenue, DubaiDescriptionCities are rising at a fast pace. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has seen this wit…

Monday — Friday
August 29, 2016 —
September 2, 2016
Article

Redefining design through textiles

In a recent profile, Ganit Goldstein talks about her work at the intersection of fashion, engineering, and tech, and her experience at MIT.

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Death and the Powers: Redefining Opera

Death and the Powers is a groundbreaking opera that brings a variety of technological, conceptual, and aesthetic innovations to the th…

Article

Blockchain technology: Redefining trust for a global, digital economy

With Google Trends showing that searches for the word “blockchain” have exponentially increased, we may be entering the peak of the hype.

Article

Blockchain technology: Redefining trust for a global, digital economy

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Redefining Equity: Meaningful Uses of Technology in Learning Environments

Robbin Chapman, Leo Burd

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Smart Cities

The research of the Smart Cities group focuses on intelligent, sustainable buildings, mobility systems, and cities. It explores the applica…

Article

Redefining the Human-Machine Interactive Experience

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Cities WITH(in) - The City Science Summit

​Hyper-LOCAL solutions to GLOBAL problemsCo-hosted by MIT City Science and Taipei Tech This event was hosted virtually in October of 2…

Monday — Friday
October 4, 2021 —
October 8, 2021
7:00am — 10:00am ET
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Cities of Tomorrow webinar

This new webinar series will explore the future of French and American cities and the importance of security and trust in the digital age.

Wednesday
September 23, 2020
11:00am — 12:30pm ET
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Cities WITHOUT—City Science Summit 2019

The third City Science Summit, kicked off October 1, 2019 in the HafenCity district of Hamburg.

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Kent Larson @ Green Cities

LocationGrand Hyatt, Melbourne, Australia Description

Tuesday
March 18, 2014
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Professional Education: Beyond Smart Cities

This course focuses on data analytics, new urban systems, real-time simulation, and urban design strategies that can enable more entreprene…

Monday — Wednesday
July 24, 2017 —
July 26, 2017
8:00am — 6:00pm ET
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Kent Larson Keynote: Responsive Cities

LocationKing Abdullah Economic City (KAEC), Saudi Arabia Description

Monday — Tuesday
December 8, 2014 —
December 9, 2014
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ABM Resilient Cities

Agent Based Modeling for behaviours, building occupancy loads and risk infection at the University of Guadalajara. In collaboration wi…

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Measuring and reducing social segregation in cities

We use high-resolution geospatial data collected from mobile phones to measure social segregation at an unprecedented resolution in cities …

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Norman Foster Institute on Sustainable Cities: Opening Act

The NFI's "Opening Act" introduced the first cohort of students and included talks from experts in industry + academia. Watch the videos!

Monday
January 22, 2024
Event

CITIES WITHOUT

This City Science Summit explores a future WITHOUT top-down and increasingly obsolete heavy infrastructure.

Tuesday — Wednesday
October 1, 2019 —
October 2, 2019
Project

Instrumented Cities

The past several years have shown a proliferation of sensor and wireless communication technologies across the urban landscape, enabling la…

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Norman Foster Foundation Workshop 2018—On Cities

Autonomous Innovation Communities

Monday — Friday
June 18, 2018 —
June 22, 2018
Project

Persuasive Cities

Persuasive Cities research is aimed at advancing urban spaces to facilitate societal changes. According to social science research, any wel…

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Kent Larson @ World Alliance for Low-Carbon Cities

LocationMalmö, Sweden Description

Thursday
September 26, 2013
Project

Sensible Cities

We are developing low-cost, distributed sensor networks for grassroots environmental monitoring.

Publication

The Technological Resilience of U.S. Cities

Balland, P.A., Rigby, D., and Boschma, R. (2015) The Technological Resilience of U.S. Cities, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 8 (2): 167-184

Article

Americans have become less willing to explore their own cities

In a new study, researchers from MIT and other universities show that personal mobility during the Covid-19 pandemic hasn't fully recovered.

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Holobiont Urbanism: Revealing the Microbiological World of Cities

This project investigates urban metagenomics to reveal the invisible microbiological worlds within our cities. Using honeybees to gather sa…

Article

Norman Foster launches 'On Cities' masterclass series

A new masterclass video series from the Norman Foster Foundation features leading experts in the fields of architecture, urbanism, and more.

Publication

Do People Shape Cities, or Do Cities Shape People? The Co-evolution of Physical, Social, and Economic Change in Five Major U.S. Cities

Nikhil Naik, Scott D. Kominers, Ramesh Raskar, Edward L. Glaeser, César A. Hidalgo

Article

Gabriela Bílá Advincula’s vision for cities in motion

Two installations at the Venice Architecture Biennale and the Guggenheim Bilbao invite visitors to explore the future of urban mobility

Publication

Complex Economic Activities Concentrate in Large Cities

Balland, P., Jara-Figueroa, C., Petralia, S.G. et al. Complex Economic Activities Concentrate in Large Cities. Nature Human Behavior (2020) doi:10.1038/s41562-019-0803-3

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Empowering Cities for Sustainable Wellbeing

Stibe, A., Chatterjee, S., Schechtner, K., Wunsch, M., Millonig, A., Seer, S., ... & Larson, K. (2016). Empowering Cities for Sustainable Wellbeing. Alexander Meschtscherjakov Boris De Ruyter Verena Fuchsberger Martin Murer, 76.

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Could self-driving bikes change how we use cities?

Kent Larson, head of the Media Lab’s City Science group, and PhD student Naroa Coretti Sánchez talk about the group's work and philosophy.

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Beyond Smart Cities—online short course

This online professional short course offers people around the globe an opportunity to learn from Kent Larson and the City Science team as …

Post

Routes to privacy: traversing U.S. cities under corporate surveillance

After collecting the largest dataset of corporate surveillance in the U.S., consisting of every Amazon Ring camera that has posted to the R…

Event

Pratik Shah invited to speak at University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

 Talk title: Career paths at the intersection of clinical medicine and emerging technologies

Friday
November 15, 2019
10:30am ET
Publication

Persuasive Cities: Health Behavior Change at Scale

Stibe, Agnis. "Persuasive Cities: Health Behavior Change at Scale." Alexander Meschtscherjakov Boris De Ruyter Verena Fuchsberger Martin Murer (2016): 42.

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Kent Larson Keynote: Beyond Smart Cities (Guadalajara, Mexico)

Kent Larson presents Beyond Smart Cities, a keynote lecture on how we can  enable dynamic, evolving places that respond to the complex…

Monday
December 3, 2018
5:30pm — 7:30pm ET
Publication

BASIC: Towards a Blockchained Agent-Based SImulator for Cities

Marrocco, L., Ferrer, E. C., Bucchiarone, A., Grignard, A., Alonso, L., Larson, K., & Pentland, A. (2018, July). BASIC: Towards a Blockchained Agent-Based SImulator for Cities. In International Workshop on Massively Multiagent Systems (pp. 144-162). Springer, Cham.

Publication

Small cities face greater impact from automation

Small cities face greater impact from automation Morgan R. Frank, Lijun Sun, Manuel Cebrian, Hyejin Youn, Iyad Rahwan J. R. Soc. Interface 2018 15 20170946; DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2017.0946. Published 7 February 2018

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Scientific knowledge dynamics and relatedness in biotech cities

Boschma, R., Heimeriks, G. and Balland, P.A. (2014) Scientific knowledge dynamics and relatedness in biotech cities, Research Policy, 43 (1): 107-114

Publication

Persuasive Cities for Sustainable Wellbeing: Quantified Communities

Stibe, A., & Larson, K. (2016). Persuasive Cities for Sustainable Wellbeing: Quantified Communities. In International Conference on Mobile Web and Information Systems (pp. 271-282). Springer International Publishing.

Article

Cities WITH(in): a virtual summit focused on hyper-local solutions for global problems

The summit theme, Cities WITH(in), challenged the eight City Science Network labs to seek opportunities for their research to impact local s

Article

In these small cities, AI advances could be costly

It’s long been clear that urbanization and automated technologies are shaping society, but it hasn’t been obvious how the two forces affect…

Article

Automation will have a bigger impact on jobs in smaller cities

The robot takeover will start in the smaller cities.

Project

Terra Incognita: 1000 Cities of the World

Terra Incognita is a global news game and recommendation system. Terra Incognita helps you discover interesting news and personal connectio…

Article

AI is reshaping what we know about cities

Machine learning is helping urbanists confirm–or disprove–long-standing theories about cities.

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Kent Larson on Resilient Communities and Sustainability | "On Cities" Masterclass Series

Kent Larson considers the societal stressors caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and those that the world will face post-pandemic.

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Safe Cities: Urban Mobility and Security Perception via Agent-Based Modeling

Walking as the most natural form of urban mobility plays a crucial role in shaping the quality of daily life. However, safety concerns ofte…

Article

Accessibility Objective: that 'smart cities' do not create more barriers for people with disabilities

By M. Victoria S. Nadal "There is a set of population for which smart cities can make a fundamental difference: people with disabilities."

Event

EmTech Europe - Luis Alonso and Vanesa Arroyo present in Sustainable Cities

EmTech EUROPE 2021 – Forging a Brighter FutureHosted by MIT Technology Review"MIT Technology Review is bringing its globally renowned EmTec…

Thursday — Friday
July 1, 2021 —
July 2, 2021
Person

Simone Ovsey

Former Producer of Special Projects

Publication

Roadmap for Autonomous Cities: Sustainable Transformation of Urban Spaces

Noyman, Ariel, Agnis Stibe, and Kent Larson. "Roadmap for Autonomous Cities: Sustainable Transformation of Urban Spaces." (2017).

Project

Complex Economic Activities Concentrate in Large Cities

Human activities, such as research, innovation and industry, concentrate disproportionately in large cities. The ten most innovative cities…

Person

Elena Jessop

Publication

Mobility patterns are associated with experienced income segregation in large US cities

Moro, E., Calacci, D., Dong, X. et al. Mobility patterns are associated with experienced income segregation in large US cities. Nat Commun 12, 4633 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24899-8

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Robotic Services for New Paradigm Smart Cities Based on Decentralized Technologies

Kapitonov, A., Lonshakov, S., Berman, I., Castelló Ferrer, E., Bonsignorio, F., Bulatov, V., & Svistov, A. (2019). Robotic Services for New Paradigm Smart Cities Based on Decentralized Technologies. Ledger, 4. doi:https://doi.org/10.5195/ledger.2019.177

Article

Mitchell maps cities' new "techno-sensual comfort zone"

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Quantifying Cities’ Emotional Effects

Article

Why Innovation Thrives in Cities

Article

AR is transforming tech. What can it do for cities?

Cities need to work to ensure that AR makes the leap from “cool experience,” to a technology that improves residents’ lives.

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Mobility patterns influence how we experience income segregation in our cities

Economic segregation isn't just limited to neighborhoods; it's part of the places you visit every day.

Article

Researchers at MIT Are Using Lego Blocks to Plan Cities