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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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City Science Network

MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
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City Science Lab @ Guadalajara

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

Sensor platform for assessment of water usage patterns in informal settlements

Rico, A., Larson, K. & Gamboa, M. Sensor platform for assessment of water usage patterns in informal settlements. Sci Rep 13, 18958 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-46236-3
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Axol

A distributed sensing system for managing water resources in informal communities.
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
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The Shipt Calculator: Crowdsourcing Gig Worker Pay Data to Audit Algorithmic Management

The increasing prevalence of large-scale labor aggregation platforms, worker analytics, and algorithmic decision-making by management raise…
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Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Article Research

Study shows how pandemic decreased income diversity of urban encounters, even after lockdowns

GeekWire reports on research that people were less likely to visit socioeconomically different areas while returning to pre-pandemic habits.
Article Research

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.
Post Research

City Science Lab @ Shanghai to continue cooperation with MIT City Science and the City Science Network

Representatives from the City Science Lab @ Shanghai (Tongji University) visited the MIT Media Lab to sign a continuation of their cooperat…
Post Research

Kent Larson to serve as co-director of Norman Foster Institute; Dava Newman joins Academic Council

In this age of climate change, the NFI's programs are addressed to those who wish to improve the quality of life in cities worldwide.
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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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The Atlas of Inequality

Segregation is hurting our societies and especially our cities. But economic inequality isn't just limited to neighborhoods. The restaurant…
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Gigbox: a research and development toolkit centering workers in the gig economy

Delivery workers, ridehail drivers, and other gig workers are increasingly controlled through algorithmic decision-making, fueled by data a…
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Corporate surveillance of the commons + Amazon Ring

As of August 2020, Ring has active partnerships with over 1400 law enforcement agencies across the US. These partnerships allow law enforce…