This research seminar provides a setting in which to discuss and investigate the urban planning and policy implications of modern and emerging information and comunication technologies (ICT). Seminar topics are usually tied to ongoing research in the MIT Urban Studies and Planning Department involving faculty associated with the Urban Information Systems (UIS) group. We expect most of this semester's topics to relate to our "Responsive Cities" initiatives involving urban modeling, urban spatial structure, urban sensing, and urban indicator development. These efforts include ongoing work in Boston (related to land use, transportation, and environmental modeling with the Metropolitan Area Planning Council and MassGIS), in Teluride, Colorado (related to Prof. Flaxman's workshop on modeling sustainable development), and in Portugal (related to the MIT/Portugal program and involving land use and transportation models and SENSEable City Lab experiments).
MIT Catalogue Description (brief)
Schedule (forthcoming during semester)
Discussion notes - Fall 2008 (forthcoming during semester)
Background Material
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