Looking beyond smart cities

Researchers from the Tiresia research team, at Politecnico di Milano have been working with members of the City Science team to outline and…

The certified micro-credentials offered through the City Science Lab at the University of Guadalajara aims to enable individuals from infor…

Re-Imaginando La Costanera - 2023 

In mobility-on-demand services, fleet sizes are usually dictated by rush-hour demand, leaving many vehicles idle during off-peak times. Bu…

Gipuzkoa as a 30-minute accessible region Gipuzkoa is a unique region characterized by a dispersed population along the coast and…

This project simulates an urban environment where agents interact through conversations and their perception of the cityscape, influencing …

We are developing an innovative platform that accelerates the simulation of humanized agent-based models (h-ABM) using real data sourced fr…

City Science researchers are working with various stakeholders from San Francisco to develop a community engagement platform to analyze and…

Will the city swallow the forest, or will the forest reclaim the city? Or can we find a third way?The 21st century is a critical momen…

The Community Carbon Impact is a data visualization installation created by the MIT City Science group for the Boston Museum of Science's y…

Un VISOR para San Pedro de la Paz: Una nueva tecnología para visualizar datos de tráfico usando datos de Waze A Viewer for San Pedro d…

The Kharkiv Masterplan Visualization Tool is a forward-thinking platform within the CityScope framework, developed in collaboration with th…

Perspective-Aware AI (PAI) is a new approach to AI that goes beyond simply avoiding bias. It focuses on understanding, representing, and in…

The study of human behavior in urban environment is an important field in city sciences. However, it's usually not easy to collect behavior…

CityFlow is a versatile tool that allows users to design, evaluate, and visualize urban solutions through an llm-integrated, case-based sys…

One of the pending tasks of science is to strengthen public participation in the dialogue with the scientific community. One proposed solut…

​IntroductionThe typology of sociotechnical transition pathways, as developed by Geels and Schot, provides a theoretical foundation for und…

CARTOVIAJESVincular la experiencia literaria y urbana a través del tiempo y de los viajesLinking Literary and Urban Experience through Time…

We crowdsourced and published a first-of-its-kind open dataset that contains Amazon purchase histories, spanning 2018 to 2022, from more th…

The research on Community-based Social Innovation focuses on the reshaping of urban spaces by human social behavior, incorporating an analy…

Exploring Sustainability

Revolutionizing Urban Mobility

Embark on a Journey of Invention

How can we establish nurturing and circular relationships for informal settlements and allow regenerative ecosystems to envision urban…

Ride into the Future: Discover the MIT Autonomous Bicycle Project!NOTE: This version of the website has been specifically designed for the …

COVID-19 pandemic served as a catalyst for reimagining urban spaces and emphasized the need for walkable, life-work balanced coummunities.&…

In the CityScope platform, we leverage humanized Agent-Based Models (h-ABMs) to elevate urban simulation to new heights of realism and comp…

Mobility Choices is used to predict transportation mode choices of students at the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) within the Guadalajara …

Es un sistema de simulación y visualización urbana que permite configurar escenarios de intervenciones y así evaluar las posibles repercusi…

zkTax is a zero-knowledge tax disclosure system that allows individuals to make provable claims about select information in their tax retur…

The BentoScope is a portable iteration of the CityScope platform, conceived by the City Science group at the MIT Media Lab. This compact ve…

Urban mobility is changing at an increasingly rapid pace.  In this context, stakeholders such as governments and mobility operators ne…

CityScope Costanera is a tangible platform that outlines the Costanera neighborhood of Concepcion, Biobío Chile. The Costanera de Concepció…

Increasing equity and affordability through fractional ownership including the creation of local economies that promote prosocial behaviors…

The SoCity project aims to build a non-profit DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) to bring together communities, individuals and or…

Data-Driven Mobility Choice Modeling for Dallas TXJobs and entrepreneurship to foster informal business transformation into 'more formal' e…

The City Science Lab @ Taipei is a cooperation between The National Taipei University of Technology, also called NTUT or Taipei Tech, …

The MIT City Science team will work with Ben-Gurion University (BGU) in Beersheba on a new collaboration to create the City Science Lab @ I…

Gastronomy and Beyond (G+B) aims to unite individuals who contribute to innovation in the realms of culture, products, territories, sustain…

Humanizing Agent-Based Models (h-ABM) emerges as a pioneering technique to simulate real-world behaviors, aiming to seamlessly bridge …

Door-to-door drone package deliveries are taking off across the US.  In this work we expose and study a newly emerging privacy is…

​Deciding Across Scales emerges as a cutting-edge approach to decision-making, aiming to influence various sectors and societal levels…

Understanding the link between urban planning and commuting flows is crucial for guiding urban development and policymaking. This research,…

OverviewWe found that vegan and vegetarian labels commonly found on menu items have a significantly negative impact on consumer's likelihoo…

Immersive Scope is an immersive environment designed to help people visualize complex urban designs in a more engaging and accessible …

The Generative Land Use project aims to revolutionize urban planning by developing a cutting-edge algorithm that generates the ideal land u…

A distributed sensing system for managing water resources in informal communities.

The City Science Summit is an annual gathering of the City Science Network: an international community of institutions and researchers that…

The MIT City Science team will work with the Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa and Mubil Fundazioa on a new collaboration to create the City Sci…

A Distance Learning Model for Global Laboratory-Based Synthetic Biology Education Synthetic Biology ( SynBio) tools hold the…

Could we substitute cars by shared autonomous lightweight vehicles for food delivery? We have developed an agent-based simulation model tha…

Urban mobility can often be categorized as a complex system—e.g., a nonlinear system composed of many components that interact with each …

Optimizing environmental, social, and economic performance of citiesCities play a central role in the climate crisis. According to the late…

The MIT City Science team will work with the Cámara Chilena de la Construcción (CChC), Corporación Ciudades, and the Biobío regional govern…

The City Science group uses simulations and visualizations to explain to stakeholders, including citizens, the various "what if" scenarios …

Community-scale profiling sensor node for  ocean monitoring and community coordination of fishing activities. 

Low-cost, modular, open source, and portable bio-reactor for urban bio-sensor development.

Chameleon is a machine learning enhanced sensor system that uses CO2 and PIR sensors to classify room occupancy and use.

Autonomous bicycles have recently been proposed as a new and more efficient approach to bicycle-sharing systems, but how do they compare fr…

City Science researchers are engaging in an exploratory process to understand, develop, and model a platform with a focus on the 15-minute …

Two Mobility Futures 0∞ is a research project that encompasses storytelling, a democratic decision making platform, a city model, and an im…

ESG+Community

What will be the impact of shared autonomous micro-mobility systems? Will autonomy make the micro-mobility systems even more attractive?&nb…

Tangible Swarm is a tool that displays relevant information about a robotics system (e.g., multi-robot, swarm, etc.) in real time whil…

RoboScope is a transformable, tangible-interface developed for the CityScope platform. This interface allows for on-demand, three-dime…

Following The Power of Without agenda, the City Science group proposes the Informality Crowdsourced Database. This platform …

Protegiendo el bosque del CentinelaPromover y brindar las herramientas necesarias en el comportamiento del fuego y en el manejo de incident…

Huertos Comunitarios Keyhole en Lomas del Centinela Keyhole Community Gardens in Lomas del Centinela

Somos centinelas: hacia una educación sin barreras de accesoWe are Sentinels: Towards an education without access barriersLa Univ…

The Algorithmic Zoning project explores dynamically reconfigurable incentives that encourage the pro-social development of urban areas so a…

Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spreadThe MIT Media Lab City Science group and the Andorra Innova…

This project aims to explore how the Covid-19 pandemic might have further increased social inequalities by impacting those who were …

Breathing Planet is an actuated expandable object that uses an iris structure as the underlying mechanism. It has a light source in the cen…

Walking is the most essential and human way to move through a city. When people feel safe doing so, streets come alive, communities connect…

 UN Habitat recognized in its Global Report on Human Settlements an effort to address informality with unconventional approaches, focu…

Novel Antenna-Based Controller for Musical ExpressionTune Field is a 3-dimensional tangible interface that combines and alters previously e…

Resilience Across Scales is a research theme that encompasses the work of a few Media Lab Principal Investigators and their research groups…

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

Whispers Of The Mountain is a  sensor system mounted on snow skis.  The system allows for crowdsourcing environmental data of mou…

JettSen is  an open source mobile sensor system that enables citizens, urban planners, and city officials to collectively address urba…

The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…

A lightweight research platform to develop autonomous technology Designed to transform bicycle-sharing systems into an on-demand mobil…

Governments and researchers around the world are implementing digital contact tracing solutions to stem the spread of infectious disease, n…

With(in) is a multi-stage project that includes an exhibit, installation, qualitative exploration, and visual storytelling.This is a s…

The Imaginary Atlas, Brazil explores new urban futures for cities in the heart of Brazil’s forests. In partnership with traditional communi…

An interactive  platform to improve decision-making related to the revitalization of the Champs ÉlyséesCityScope Champs-Élysée is a ta…

Agent-Based Modelling for water management: a study case of the Bac Hung Hai irrigation system in the Red River Delta, Vietnam.

There is a continuous and ubiquitous collection of precise, timestamped, geolocation data from apps and devices, being amassed by private f…

Virtual CityScope Champs-Élysées is an interactive and immersive platform that explores the future of Paris’ most important street.

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

Graphics on incompletenessThe City Science Summit 2019, CITIES WITHOUT, explored a future without top-down and obsolete systems. During the…

The Grain Prism is a hybrid musical instrument that combines granular synthesis and live audio recordings. Presented in a capacitive touch …

SoapCam is a WIP Human Computer Interaction system that motivates proper hand washing routines."Hand hygiene is the most important measure …

This is a two-part project. One part is about reality. The other part is science fiction. Both are about mobile, blockchain, and cryptograp…

Proxymix is a visualization tool to understand the influence of spatial configuration on human collaboration. This agent-based model at the…

How do you image a city that doesn't exist? DeepScope is a novel platform for interactive, real-time, and setup-less urban design visu…

The RGBox is an experimental game to teach fundamentals of additive color mixing theory. As opposed to the behavior of pigments that g…

Is the placement of bike-share docks equitable?This interactive map explores the question visually.The map shows the addition of bike-share…

As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers, …

College of Design and Innovation of Tongji University, Shanghai, and the MIT Media Lab's City Science group are co-developing a version of …

Unfolding the way we move. Mobility has shaped the built environment since humans started settling together. From industrial towns to …

HairIO uses hair-based sensors to detect and transmit data. HairIO explores the possible interaction space of fur, and it has the potential…

An environment of plants and mirrors that extends beyond the terrarium walls. 

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…

This project aims to create a modular platform for exploring micro-kitchens that are culture specific. Cooking is a personal experience tha…

Autonomous vehicles (AVs), drones, and other types of robots will revolutionize our way of traveling and understanding urban space. In orde…

MoCho (short for "Mobility Choices") is a CityScope module focused on mobility choices and societal impacts. This tool helps pred…

What is FindingPlaces?In reaction to the sudden arrival of tens of thousands of refugees in the city of Hamburg (DE) in 2015, the Lord Mayo…

We are at the dawn of a mobility revolution, where autonomous vehicles will replace cars controlled by humans. We can imagine this developi…

The City Science Lab@Guadalajara is a collaboration with the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), a network composed of 15 campuses within the…

Data Fusion for Dynamic Traffic PredictionTraffic congestion has huge negative impacts on the productivity, health and personal lives …

Analyze and visualize urban interaction with computer vision and deep neural net. 

City Science Lab Toronto was established in cooperation with Toronto Metropolitan University.  The  groups plan to build and work…

In architecture, the building skin is the primary interface for mediating the environment of the external with the internal. But today, thi…

Predicting Urban Performance through Behavioral Patterns in Temporal Telecom DataThis study explores a novel method to analyze diverse beha…

 A Handheld Device for Realtime Spatial Movement, Remote Control and Perspectival Orientation between Physical objects and Digital 3-D…

TerMITes are a wireless environmental sensor platform that enables designers and researchers with the necessary tools to capture envir…

An Alternative Autonomous Revolution System design for emerging urban contexts and societal aspirationsThe Persuasive Electric Vehicle…

An Urban Decision-Support System Augmented by Artificial IntelligenceThe decision-making process in urban design and urban planning is outd…

CityScope Volpe is demonstrating most of the urban planning, analysis, and prediction features developed for the CityScope project. The sit…

Tongji University, Shanghai, and the MIT Media Lab's City Science group are co-developing a version of the MIT CityScope platform for …

The esc-Pod  (or Escape Pod) is an exploratory platform for researchers investigating moments of refuge within our bustling work lives…

Research in dynamic tools, mix users (citizens, workers) amenities, services, and land use, with the goal of promoting sustainable developm…

Scalable Urban Infrastructure for Human-Machine CohabitationNew infrastructure to help sustain public-sector participation and operation, a…

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…

Developed by Ira Winder with the MIT Centre for Transportation and Logistics, the model seeks to use real population data and create a simu…

Facilitating coexistence, trust-building, and collaboration among people and machines.New modes of 21st century urban transportation are be…

Forecasting the supply of fleets to meet emerging travel demands and service needs in citiesThe availability of vehicles is a critical fact…

MIT City Science is working with HafenCity University to develop digital tools to enable more livable communities. In one project, the team…

Cloud-Based Urban Data PlatformcityIO (input/output) is a cloud- and database-driven platform which allows remote participation, database a…

Open-Source Autonomous Platform for Educational and Service Design ApplicationsHow can new technologies respond to society’s diverse indust…

The development of transportation improvements in any city poses a range of challenges, including meaningfully involving relevant stakehold…

This project depicts the design, deployment and operation of a Tangible Regulation Platform, a physical-technological apparatus made for th…

How can we get more value from the same buildings? Cities contain many different resources and spaces and typically, these resources o…