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Growth in leisure travel has become increasingly significant economically, socially, and environmentally. However, flexible but uncoordin...
Creating art for social transformation
This project depicts the design, deployment and operation of a Tangible Regulation Platform, a physical-technological apparatus made for ...
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...
Looking beyond smart cities
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...
Advancing wellbeing by using new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
We use high-resolution geospatial data collected from mobile phones to measure social segregation at an unprecedented resolution in citie...
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Creating technology for social change
Transforming data into knowledge
Cities need to work to ensure that AR makes the leap from “cool experience,” to a technology that improves residents’ lives.
Revealing insights into the human condition and repairing brain disorders via novel tools for mapping and fixing brain computations
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and...
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
An Alternative Autonomous Revolution System design for emerging urban contexts and societal aspirationsThe Persuasive Electric Vehic...
As advances in robotics and artificial intelligence revive concerns about the impact of automation on jobs, a question looms: How will au...
Revisit Human 2.0, a 2007 Media Lab symposium focused on the future of human adaptability.
City Science Lab Toronto is established in cooperation with Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. It started in 2018 and is ...
View the main City Science Andorra project profile.The MIT Media Lab's City Science research group, the University of Andorra, and nation...
Read more about this project hereMIT City Science is working with Hafencity University to develop CityScope for the neighborhood of Rothe...
Rapid urbanization causes a need for new mobility modes which may not be totally dependent on cars.
To explore future mobility modes, the City Science group is working with Media Lab member company Panasonic to explore the use and potent...
NTUT, MIT sign ‘smart’ development agreement
View the main City Science Andorra project profile.
Predicting Urban Performance through Behavioral Patterns in Temporal Telecom DataThis study explores a novel method to analyze diverse be...
Mapping the urban perception
CityScope Volpe is demonstrating most of the urban planning, analysis, and prediction features developed for the CityScope project. The s...
SCHOOL, ENERGY AWARENESSUsing TerMITes in the Santa Coloma School in Andorra we want to help students understand the relation between the...
Ant-Based Modeling explores the possibility of implementing agent-based modeling with living ants and external stimuli such as ...
Noyman, Sakai, Larson 2018. CityScopeAR: Urban Design and Crowdsourced Engagement Platform. CHI 2018, 4,2007
Noyman, Ariel, Agnis Stibe, and Kent Larson. "Roadmap for Autonomous Cities: Sustainable Transformation of Urban Spaces." (2017).
Smart furniture transforms spaces in tiny apartments into bedrooms, work spaces, or closets.
In reaction to the sudden arrival of tens of thousands of refugees in the city of Hamburg (DE) in 2015, the Lord Mayor requested the City...
POWERSTRUCTURES : the urban form of regulations, Noyman, Ariel, Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2015.; Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.; Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-236).
It’s long been clear that urbanization and automated technologies are shaping society, but it hasn’t been obvious how the two forces affe...
We demonstrate how the CityHome, which has a very small footprint, can function as an apartment two to three times that size. This is ach...
The Synthetic Apiary proposes a new kind of environment, bridging urban and organismic scales by exploring one of the most important orga...
Aalto University, Finland, and the MIT Media Lab’s City Science Initiative are co-developing a version of the MIT CityScope platform for ...
The robot takeover will start in the smaller cities.
The Persuasive Electric Vehicle (PEV) is an agile, on-demand, shared, and functionally hybrid tricycle.
The CityCar electric automobile, developed and prototyped by Smart Cities, is designed to meet the demand for enclosed personal mobility ...
Facebook volunteers and work-at-home moms might be making city planning decisions, thanks to AI research conducted by MIT scientists. Res...
Using computer vision to examine Google Street View, the researchers analyzed how streets and blocks have changed in five American cities.
Tested with five American cities, Streetchange quantifies the physical improvement or deterioration of neighborhoods.
A recently published paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) looks at factors that predict neighborhood change.
Researchers have used machine learning to quantify the physical improvement or deterioration of neighborhoods in five American cities.
Computer vision uncovers predictors of physical urban change
Creating sociotechnical systems that shape our urban environments
The Andorra Living Lab project combines different research topics (Tourism, Innovation, Energy & Environment, Mobility, Dynamic urban...
A collaboration to set up a "City Science Lab" to focus on the development of "smart" city infrastructure and autonomous vehicles.
You Are Here is an experiment in microurbanism. In this project, we are creating 100 maps each of 100 different cities. Each map gives a...
Y. Leng, A. Noriega, A.S. Pentland, I. Winder, N. Lutz, L. Alonso: "Analysis of Tourism Dynamics and Special Events through Mobile Phone Metadata". 2016. Proceedings of Data for Good Exchange (D4GX) 2016. New York, NY.
Y. Leng, L. Rudolph, A.S. Pentland, J. Zhao, H.N. Koutsopolous: "Managing travel demand: Location recommendation for system eciency based on mobile phone data". 2016. Proceedings of Data for Good Exchange (D4GX) 2016. New York, NY.
The use of data-driven methods to examine dynamic spaces, relationships, and mechanisms within an urban environment frames the city as a ...