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Theme | Transformable Environments and Sensing

We are developing hyper-efficient places of living that are dynamically transformable so that compact, more affordable spaces have three ti…
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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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City Science Exhibitions

How can exhibitions bring complex urban futures to broader, non-expert communities?City Science exhibitions translate research into rich pu…
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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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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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Designing Walkable Communities

Designing Walkable CommunitiesA tangible interface for exploring how the distribution of urban amenities shapes walkability, mobility, and …
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Collecting Community-Based Data for Informal Settlements

What does it take to generate reliable data in places where official records do not exist?Collecting Community-Based Data in Informal Urban…
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Imaginary Atlas, Amazonia

Imaginary Atlas, Amazônia is an immersive installation and long-term research project that explores how Amazonian cities may evolve in a po…
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THEME | Urban Futures of the Amazon

Will the city swallow the forest, or will the forest reclaim the city? Or can we find a third way?The 21st century is a critical momen…
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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…
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The Community Carbon Impact

The Community Carbon Impact is a data visualization installation created by the MIT City Science group for the Boston Museum of Science's y…
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Can autonomy make bike-sharing more sustainable?

Autonomous bicycles have recently been proposed as a new and more efficient approach to bicycle-sharing systems, but how do they compare fr…
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Guadalajara Mobility Choices

Mobility Choices is used to predict transportation mode choices of students at the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) within the Guadalajara …
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Autonomous micro-mobility for food deliveries

Could we substitute cars by shared autonomous lightweight vehicles for food delivery? We have developed an agent-based simulation model tha…
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Multifunctional Autonomous Micro-Mobility

In mobility-on-demand services, fleet sizes are usually dictated by rush-hour demand, leaving many vehicles idle during off-peak times. Bu…
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Hyper-LOCAL Solutions to GLOBAL Challenges

Optimizing environmental, social, and economic performance of citiesCities play a central role in the climate crisis. According to the late…
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Axol

A distributed sensing system for managing water resources in informal communities.
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CityFlow: An Advanced Case-based Design System Integrated with Expert Workflow and LLM Retriever

CityFlow is a versatile tool that allows users to design, evaluate, and visualize urban solutions through an llm-integrated, case-based sys…
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The MIT Autonomous Bicycle Project

A lightweight research platform to develop autonomous technology Designed to transform bicycle-sharing systems into an on-demand mobil…
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Persuasive Electric Vehicle (PEV)

An Alternative Autonomous Revolution System design for emerging urban contexts and societal aspirationsThe Persuasive Electric Vehicle…
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Urban Mobility Swarms: towards a decentralized autonomous bicycle-sharing system

Urban mobility can often be categorized as a complex system—e.g., a nonlinear system composed of many components that interact with each …
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Autonomous micro-mobility simulation study

What will be the impact of shared autonomous micro-mobility systems? Will autonomy make the micro-mobility systems even more attractive?&nb…
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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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Algorithmic zoning

The Algorithmic Zoning project explores dynamically reconfigurable incentives that encourage the pro-social development of urban areas so a…