Looking beyond smart cities

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This initiative is for identifying cost-efficient and lightweight infrastructure systems for deployment in rapidly urbanizing areas.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Ma...

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

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

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

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

City Science Lab Toronto was established in cooperation with Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada.  It  started in 2018 and is...

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

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

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

TerMITes are wireless environmental sensors that capture data to help us better understand our environments and human behavior. The senso...

An Alternative Autonomous Revolution System design for emerging urban contexts and societal aspirationsThe Persuasive Electric Vehic...

Structurally, zero gravity means that we do not have to contend with architecture's greatest arch-nemesis, gravity. This opens up a new w...

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

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

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

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

Aalto University, Finland, and the MIT Media Lab’s City Science group are co-developing a version of the MIT CityScope platform for urban...

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.Research in dynamic tools, mix users (citizens, workers) amenities, services, and land...

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

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

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

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

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

Read more about this project hereMIT City Science is working with HafenCity University to develop CityScope for the neighborhood of Rothe...

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

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

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

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

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