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Yasushi Sakai

Research Scientist
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Project Research

Theme | Consensus

How can urban residents reach a shared vision of the future?Many excellent and potentially transformative ideas fail to be deployed in citi…
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Theme | Urban Performance Model

Urban areas are responsible for 70% of global GHG emission, and must play a central role in solutions to global warming. Using Kendall Squa…
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A civic simulation platform for San Francisco

An immersive decision-support platform that lets communities and planners experience zoning scenarios in real time.
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Living Lab with CityScope using h-ABM

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

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

The City Science group uses simulations and visualizations to explain to stakeholders, including citizens, the various "what if" scenarios …
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Two Mobility Futures 0∞

Two Mobility Futures 0∞ is an immersive research project that explores how radically different mobility paradigms—near-zero movement and ne…
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JettSen

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

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

Diastrophisms is a sound installation with a modular system that sends images through rhythmic patterns. It is built on a set of debris fro…
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MoCho: Mobility choices and societal impacts

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

MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsFounded a decade ago, the City Science Network conn…
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Hackable Bike

To explore future mobility modes, the City Science group is working with Media Lab member company Panasonic to explore the use and potentia…
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City Science Lab @ Shanghai

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

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