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On May 17th join us for 'Hacking the Racial Wealth Gap,' a fun 8-hour day of information sharing and problem-solving focused on jobs and entrepreneurship, and closing the racial wealth gap at the MIT Media Lab. Register via: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Learn more: hackingthearchive.mit.edu
May 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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More than half of Bostonians spend more than 30% of their income just to keep themselves housed. Students in Interactive Data Visualization & Society, a class at MIT, worked in teams to build digital tools to tackle this housing affordability challenge in Boston.

More: bit.ly/idvs25
A screenshot of a student project webpage that shows a mobility scale and the cost of living within the area for individual properties A screenshot of a student project site which shows plots of land on a road with structures loosely outlined
May 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Awards and honors for case studies, work, community building and influence in the Boston area; three student-teams recognized for urban design excellence; and more in this month's roundup of DUSP community news: bit.ly/duspItm425
Five individuals stand in a row holding award certificates in front of themselves Rendering of a site plan An individual sits in front of a pair of open French doors The cover of Making Home, showing clothes hanging on a line in front of a mobile home
April 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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How do peacekeeping missions plan for their withdrawal from a conflict zone and why it is so difficult to make peace sustainable? DUSP alumna Silvia Danielak (PhD ‘23) explores in the context of the end of the AU-UN peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID). More: bit.ly/danielakUnamid
Rwandan peacekeepers march at UNAMID’s headquarters in El Fasher during the 2012 commemoration of the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers.
April 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Learn how the MIT Renewable Energy Clinic utilizes a nonpartisan approach to work with communities considering offshore wind infrastructure to help uncover and address potential challenges.

More: bit.ly/chunOffshore

IC: William Jones via Wikimedia Commons
Photo of Barnstable Harbor with piers, buildings, water and boats.
April 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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How might the #policy, #urbanplanning, and #architecture help design interventions for issues surrounding the City of Baltimore's housing vacancy challenge? A joint MIT/MSU class sees students to collaborate to build pathways to a more just and thriving Baltimore.

More: bit.ly/mitmsuBaltim...
Students are led on a tour of a vacant row home in Baltimore, old gray plaster can be seen above a fireplace, with four individuals in the frame of the photo.
April 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Kofi Boone, winner of the 2025 Kevin Lynch Award, centers his work on democratic design principles and empowerment of communities to help realize a vision of responsive and just urban planning. Register to attend the award ceremony: bit.ly/4j3HTp2
April 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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A new DUSP Open Learning course, Leadership in Planning, offers practical skills and techniques for leading planning initiatives and public organizations.

Learn more and enroll for free: bit.ly/leadershipIn...
Picture of townhouses, each painted in a shade from black to white, showing a grayscale effect
April 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Next Wednesday (April 16, 2025) join DUSP and HEET for a discussion about an equitable energy transition in Massachusetts centered on harnessing networked geothermal.

More info: calendar.mit.edu/event/commun...
Photo of five pairs of muddy boots, shot from above.
April 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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How can we tap into spirituality, reverence, or deeply held values to drive meaningful civic engagement and systemic change? We Who Engage, a podcast led by DUSP's Ceasar McDowell and MIT alumna Ayushi Roy (MCP '19), explores in its third season. More: bit.ly/weWhoEngage3

IC: Casey Murano
April 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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“The ‘Upanayana Project’ blends ‘that history and my lived experience as a queer child being asked to renounce his femininity, his queerness,’” says Ananth Udupa in Cate McQuaid’s @bostonglobe.com piece.

This and more in the monthly roundup of DUSP community news: bit.ly/duspInt325
Ananth Udupa dancing Headshot of David Hsu on the left with an image of power lines and housing on the right Headshot of Mel King, at a microphone, taken in profile Protestors demonstrate demanding fair housing
March 31, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Does urban science -- using computational methods & data analysis to address urban planning challenges -- perpetuate historical racial inequities & if so, how could we realize a reparative urban science? Wonyoung So explores in an article for @planningtheory.bsky.social. More: bit.ly/soReparative...
A city skyline image (of London) is shaded blue, with nodes and icons overlaid to represent data extracted from the urban environment
March 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Many people are living in energy poverty - meaning they spend at least 8% of their annual household income on energy - a new study shows how coaching & data can help reduce their consumption & costs.

More: bit.ly/energyPoverty
Row of houses with lights on located on a canal in Amsterdam
March 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Please join us in congratulating Justin Steil, named a 2025 MacVicar Faculty Fellow, recognizing his exemplary and sustained contributions to undergraduate education at MIT.

More via Meghan Burke's MIT News coverage: bit.ly/macvicarSteil
Side-by-side headshots of Paloma Duong, Frank Schilbach, and Justin Steil
March 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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How might we better understand how we perceive and value nature in our urban environments? A new paper from researchers at MIT's Senseable City Lab and TU Delft, leverages #ai to help generate a model for measuring how we sense nature.

More: bit.ly/sensingNature
A map of the globe, with colored dots denoting natural landscape features and helping to outline land mass. 8 cities are highlighted, which are part of the study.
March 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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For 10 years, MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Water & Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) has supported food & water research across the Institute, including work by DUSP community members Yasmin Zaerpoor (PhD '19), Jonars Spielberg (PhD '25), Andrea Beck (PhD '20), Bish Sanyal, & Larry Susskind. More: bit.ly/jwafs
5 by 4 photo grid featuring researcher headshots; pics of researchers giving presentations or lab tours, working with students, and working with people in the field; along with other water and food images like water in jars, crop plants in a lab, and a hand holding a shrimp
March 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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A virtual Community Recovery Academy that leans on MIT’s expertise, offers online trainings and digital spaces for co-learning with Ukrainian city officials and DUSP faculty members, with the aim of planning for recovery after the war.

More via MIT News: bit.ly/ukraineRecov...
Screenshot of two pages from Serhiy Rodionov’s team’s presentation “Re: Maripol.” the left page features examples of redevelopment sketched over an existing screen, shown at scale and from an isometric point of view. The right page shows an example, from Switzerland, of multi-use, human-scale and dense housing development. A rendering of the unnamed peninsula in Maripol, envisioning how the space could be transformed to be part of green space, a transportation network, and space for the public use.
March 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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How will the United States incorporate advanced manufacturing into its industrial base? And why is it critical for policymakers to consider advanced manufacturing for the future of US production systems? Elisabeth Reynolds offers expert testimony for Congress: bit.ly/reynoldsCong...
Headshot of Liz Reynolds
March 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Drawing attention to the public health concerns of transportation in American cities, the challenges facing reconstruction efforts in Gaza, urging us to “rethink how we design for a world altered by climate impacts,” and more in this month's roundup of DUSP community news: bit.ly/225inTheMedia
Carlo Ratti stands in front of water with arms outstretched A bus, in a designated bus lane, is stopped because an illegally parked delivery vehicle
February 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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entwined, the second volume of the student publication, Silt, explores our relationship with land and space. "Our second volume establishes Silt as a home for creative work that swirls across physical and digital space,” write co-editors Lucy Corlett and Olivia Fiol.

More: bit.ly/siltVolume2
Individuals gather in a gallery space at MIT to celebrate the launch of the second volume of Silt
February 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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The Equitably Resilient City, named the 2025 Best Book in Urban Affairs Award, explores "how people look at problems more holistically — to show how environmental impacts are integrated with their livelihoods."

Learn more via Peter Dizikes ' MIT news coverage: bit.ly/valeEquitabl...
On left, the green cover to the book says, “Solidarities and Struggles in the Face of Climate Crisis; The Equitably Resilient City; Zachary B. Lamb and Lawrence J. Vale.” On right is a portrait of Vale.
February 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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"... we call on principles of participatory action research and participatory design, to help make voices of those who are most impacted by gender-based violence also the most prominent in the design of interventions.” Learn more about 'A woman’s place is in a safe city': bit.ly/dignazioSafe...
February 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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How do individuals navigate complex decisions when they must do so collectively and while weighing cost benefits such as long-term social benefits versus the ability to accrue wealth in the short-term? Jonathan Tarleton (MCP ‘18), explores in his new book, Homes for Living: bit.ly/tarletonHome...
A headshot of Jonathan Tarleton on the left and the cover of his book, Homes for Living on the right
February 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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In an opinion piece for the @bostonglobe.com, Karilyn Crockett explores the history of the Home for Aged Colored Women + the role of collective research projects, like her seminar (Un)Dead Geographies, play in uncovering histories & honoring often overlooked memories.

More: bit.ly/crockettUnde...
An old portrait, in a vertical oval frame, is superimposed on census data records
February 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Highlighting the need for humanitarian shelter to support the world’s most vulnerable people, efforts to to ​​make the crowded areas a city safer & more accessible for all, hacking urban planning, understanding mobility gaps, + more from the DUSP community this month: bit.ly/dusp125
A hero style photo of Karilyn Crockett, standing in a glass wall hallway on MIT's campus (building 9, floor 5) A series of images, on the far left is a map in gray scale, in the middle are satellite images of locations and the far left is a rendering, in isometric view, of a building A collage of seven headshots transposed over teal and two shades of orange background Collage of images of Andres Sevtsuk and Sally Kornbulth with a teal background
January 31, 2025 at 5:47 PM