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Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and p…
How can urban residents reach a shared vision of the future?Many excellent and potentially transformative ideas fail to be deployed in citi…
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsFounded a decade ago, the City Science Network conn…
Urban areas are responsible for 70% of global GHG emission, and must play a central role in solutions to global warming. Using Kendall Squa…
How can we serve 2.5 billion people without access to centralized infrastructure for basic services?By 2050, more than 2.5 billion people a…
The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
Designing Walkable CommunitiesA tangible interface for exploring how the distribution of urban amenities shapes walkability, mobility, and …
This work examines women’s everyday mobility and experiences of insecurity in an informal neighborhood, comparing how different research me…
Think about how a delayed shipment, a cancelled flight, or a glitchy app can disrupt your week. Now scale that up: a virus like COVID-19 co…
MIT City Science is working with HafenCity University to develop digital tools to enable more livable communities. In one project, the team…
How do you image a city that doesn't exist? DeepScope is a novel platform for interactive, real-time, and setup-less urban design visu…
Autonomous bicycles have recently been proposed as a new and more efficient approach to bicycle-sharing systems, but how do they compare fr…
Mobility Choices is used to predict transportation mode choices of students at the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) within the Guadalajara …
Could we substitute cars by shared autonomous lightweight vehicles for food delivery? We have developed an agent-based simulation model tha…
How can we establish nurturing and circular relationships for informal settlements and allow regenerative ecosystems to envision urban…
A distributed sensing system for managing water resources in informal communities.
A lightweight research platform to develop autonomous technology Designed to transform bicycle-sharing systems into an on-demand mobil…
An Alternative Autonomous Revolution System design for emerging urban contexts and societal aspirationsThe Persuasive Electric Vehicle…
Research in dynamic tools, mix users (citizens, workers) amenities, services, and land use, with the goal of promoting sustainable developm…
We take as a starting point for our work the recent scholarship by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice, in which she described design jus…
What will be the impact of shared autonomous micro-mobility systems? Will autonomy make the micro-mobility systems even more attractive?&nb…
We use high-resolution geospatial data collected from mobile phones to measure social segregation at an unprecedented resolution in cities …
An interactive platform to improve decision-making related to the revitalization of the Champs ÉlyséesCityScope Champs-Élysée is a ta…
Segregation is hurting our societies and especially our cities. But economic inequality isn't just limited to neighborhoods. The restaurant…
The Algorithmic Zoning project explores dynamically reconfigurable incentives that encourage the pro-social development of urban areas so a…
As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers, …
Predicting Urban Performance through Behavioral Patterns in Temporal Telecom DataThis study explores a novel method to analyze diverse beha…
Virtual CityScope Champs-Élysées is an interactive and immersive platform that explores the future of Paris’ most important street.
CityScope Volpe is demonstrating most of the urban planning, analysis, and prediction features developed for the CityScope project. The sit…
How can we get more value from the same buildings? Cities contain many different resources and spaces and typically, these resources o…
Autonomous vehicles (AVs), drones, and other types of robots will revolutionize our way of traveling and understanding urban space. In orde…
MoCho (short for "Mobility Choices") is a CityScope module focused on mobility choices and societal impacts. This tool helps pred…
Often, we neglect to see the city as living, complex, and dynamic. However, shrouded by its masses of concrete and steel lie unique ecosyst…
This project depicts the design, deployment and operation of a Tangible Regulation Platform, a physical-technological apparatus made for th…
Modern cities have to respond to the growing demands of more efficient and sustainable urban development, as well as an increased quality o…
What is FindingPlaces?In reaction to the sudden arrival of tens of thousands of refugees in the city of Hamburg (DE) in 2015, the Lord Mayo…
EEEeb Spring 2019: Urban OceansMarch 24, April 7 and 21, May 19, June 2 To register, please visit this link.…
Cloud-Based Urban Data PlatformcityIO (input/output) is a cloud- and database-driven platform which allows remote participation, database a…
Growth in leisure travel has become increasingly significant economically, socially, and environmentally. However, flexible but uncoordinat…
View the main City Science Andorra project profile.The MIT Media Lab's City Science research group, the University of Andorra, and national…
To explore future mobility modes, the City Science group is working with Media Lab member company Panasonic to explore the use and potentia…
The Andorra Living Lab project combines different research topics (Tourism, Innovation, Energy & Environment, Mobility, Dynamic urban p…