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Kent Larson

Professor of the Practice
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Real-Time Safety Mapping Through Community Sensors

We developed a small, handheld sensor to track when and where people feel unsafe in urban areas that are still growing or changing. The dev…
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City Science Lab @ Ho Chi Minh City

We are pleased to introduce the newest member of the City Science Network, Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam. As part of this collaboration,…
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Technologies Toolkit

Following The Power of Without agenda, the City Science group proposes the Technologies Toolkit. This research aims to translate the knowle…
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GeoBits

This is an open source geospatial exploration tool. Using various public APIs including Open Street Map and the United States Census, we ca…
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Singapore Pedestrian Accessibility

This project focused on pedestrian accessibility in collaboration with Singapore Centre for Liveable Cities. Researchers and planners came …
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GSK Places Initiative

This project is part of a parallel research endeavor with GSK Manufacturing. By simulating how scientists at the Upper Providence site inte…
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GSK Manufacturing Initiative

This project is the first of two projects in collaboration with GSK. We are developing a computational simulation that allows a human user …
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Hybrid Autonomous Shared Bike Fleet Deployment Simulator

Cities around the world are striving to improve livability by way of reducing dependency on fossil-fuels cars. How might we leverage the au…
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RePlace

RePlace is a 3D data visualization platform that takes the normally invisible activity of sensors and data loggers and overlays that inform…
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City Game

Planning a city is a complex task requiring collaboration between multiple stakeholders with different, and often conflicting, goals and ob…
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CityScope Riyadh

We recently led a workshop in Saudi Arabia, with staff from the Riyadh Development Authority, to test a new version of our CityScope platfo…
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CityScope Mark I: Real-Time Data Observatory

Real-time geospatial data is visualized on an exhibition-scale 3D city model. The model is built of LEGO bricks, and visualization is perfo…
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CityHome

We demonstrate how the CityHome, which has a very small footprint, can function as an apartment two to three times that size. This is achie…
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_Context-Aware Dynamic Lighting

The robotic facade is conceived as a mass-customizable module that combines solar control, heating, cooling, ventilation, and other functio…
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BoxLab

Designed as a platform to enable rich contextual data collection in real homes, BoxLab uses a broad array of wireless sensing devices to st…
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_Mobility on Demand Systems

Mobility on Demand (MoD) systems are fleets of lightweight electric vehicles at strategically distributed electrical charging stations thro…
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MITes: Portable Wireless Sensors for Studying Behavior in Natural Settings

MITes (MIT environmental sensors) are low-cost, wireless devices for collecting data about human behavior and the state of the environment.…
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CityScope Barcelona

The "Barcelona" demo is an independent prototype designed to model and simulate human interactions within a Barcelona-like urban environmen…
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CityFARM

By 2030, nine billion people will populate the globe and six out of every 10 will live in cities. The future of global food production will…
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Awakened Apparel

This project investigates soft mechanisms, origami, and fashion. We created a modified Miura-fold skirt that changes shape through pneumati…
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QuitoLab

QuitoLab will incorporate both architectural and CityScope LEGO models of the historic core of Quito to engage local and visiting communiti…
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CityCar

The CityCar electric automobile, developed and prototyped by Smart Cities, is designed to meet the demand for enclosed personal mobility – …
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Participatory Environmental Sensing for Communities

Air and water pollution are well-known concerns in cities throughout the world. However, communities often lack practical tools to measure …
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Resilient Communities and COVID-19

The City Science group is collaborating on several projects in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to the project pages linked b…
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City Science Lab @ Aalto

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

Memento is a home-based reminder system that allows users to associate customized voice reminders with specific activities in their daily l…
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