Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies celebrates 50th anniversary
SPURS Fellows serve as agents of change in international development.
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Urban Studies and Planning
Garden of ideas
With a new multimedia website, landscape architecture professor Anne Whiston Spirn makes a secret garden public and explores how ideas create form.
J. Phillip Thompson named deputy mayor of New York City
Appointment recognizes Thompson's expertise in urban politics and coalition building.
MIT Black History Project launches new website
Digital archive features never-before-published image of MIT's first black woman student.
Sealing the cracks in public education
MIT senior Yazmin Guzman wants to change the educational landscape to provide opportunities to all K-12 students.
New connector helps faculty, student startups launch in China
The new connector helps faculty, students, and alumni launch startups in China.
Lawrence S. Bacow ’72 named president of Harvard University
“I learned how to be a professor and a university leader at MIT,” says former chancellor and DUSP faculty member.
Is Massachusetts ready for carbon pricing?
Panel at MIT explores benefits, costs, and political challenges.
A manifesto for designing cities
MIT professor’s new book calls for a more pluralistic, democratic vision of the city.
Turning real estate data into decision-making tools
New Real Estate Price Dynamics Research Platform from the MIT Center for Real Estate offers predictive power to investors.
One planet, many climate plans. Why?
MIT’s Janelle Knox-Hayes studies the cultural issues behind climate policy.
3 Questions: Chris Zegras on designing your city’s transit system
MIT-designed tool lets people test realistic changes to local transit networks.
MIT architects, planners honored for sustainable design
MIT faculty and alumni projects are recognized for excellence in the international LafargeHolcim Awards competition.
MIT brainpower highlighted in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 lists for 2018
Forbes calls this year's 30 Under 30 lists an "encyclopedia of creative disruption."
MIT launches China Future City Lab
New urban studies program to spur research and innovation in China.