A design to save American cities
Abandoned buildings in downtown Detroit
In new book, urban studies professor Brent Ryan says shrinking American cities should stop emulating the suburbs and start supporting creative rebuilding ideas.
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- Media lab complex
- A peek into the new Media Lab complex which opened last month.
- Opera of the future
- MIT Media Lab Professor Tod Machover discusses his robotic opera, Death and the Powers.
- Surround vision
- In the same way that surround sound lets TV viewers hear what’s happening just off-screen, a new system developed by graduate student Santiago Alfar...
- The study of water
- MIT's Aga Khan Professor of Architecture James Wescoat, who specializes in the study of water, uses a decidedly interdisciplinary approach in his rese...
- MIT bubbles
- Mary Hale, MArch '09; and Brandon Roy, MAS PhD candidate '11, discuss their IAP course 'MIT Bubbles: an intro to designing and building in...
- Treatment plants
- Researchers inject fluorescent dye into the water to analyze its flow pattern around plants in a test model.
- Using your 'SixthSense'
- Pranav Mistry discusses 'SixthSense,' a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us us...
- A smarter screen
- Media Lab researchers have created a bidirectional screen capable of both imaging and display. It uses an LCD as a spatial light modulator to support ...
- Reading a tiny barcode from far away
- The Camera Culture group in MIT's Media Lab aims to create a new class of imaging platforms. The group's "Bokode" is a barcode one-...
- Audio, visual
- Metropath(ologies) is an installation about living in a world overflowing with information and non-stop communication.
featured stories
Is that smile real or fake?
A computerized system developed at MIT can tell the difference between smiles of joy and smiles of frustration.
MIT Japan 3/11 Initiative focuses on reconstruction
A series of focused efforts in disaster resiliency
architecture and planning links
School of Architecture + Planning
- Homepage of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning
Media Lab
- The MIT Media Lab applies an unorthodox research approach to envision the impact of emerging technologies on everyday life.
Urban Studies and Planning
- Since its inception in 1933, the Department of Urban Studies and Planning has consistently remained one of the top planning schools in the country.
Department of Architecture
- Homepage for MIT’s Department of Architecture
MIT Center for Real Estate
- The Center strives to improve the quality of the built environment and to promote more informed professional practice in the global real estate industry.
MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
- The MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology emphasizes experimentation and transdisciplinary approaches to studio production in both traditional and new media.
