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Looking beyond smart cities
Izquierdo, L., Nawyn, J. & Larson, K. "Comparative assessment of women’s safety and mobility research methods in informal neighborhoods." npj Urban Sustain (2026).
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Designing Walkable CommunitiesA tangible interface for exploring how the distribution of urban amenities shapes walkability, mobility, and …
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
This work examines women’s everyday mobility and experiences of insecurity in an informal neighborhood, comparing how different research me…
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
People and intelligent machines in a creative loop
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
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…
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
MIT City Science is working with HafenCity University to develop digital tools to enable more livable communities. In one project, the team…
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
City Science Lab Toronto was established in cooperation with Toronto Metropolitan University. The groups plan to build and work…
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
In 2016, Hamburg partnered with MIT Media Lab, the creator of an AI platform called CityScope.
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.
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and p…
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…
Researchers in the Media Lab’s City Science group discuss the role of AI in building cities where humans can thrive.
Research in dynamic tools, mix users (citizens, workers) amenities, services, and land use, with the goal of promoting sustainable developm…
NTUT, MIT sign ‘smart’ development agreement
In an article for the World Economic Forum, former Labber Honghao Deng looks at sustainability research from the City Science group.
The City Science Network is a collaboration of institutions + researchers sharing a the goal of enabling more livable, equitable communities
The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…
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…
Project shares ways to create community around design equity, ethics, and justice.
GeekWire reports on research that people were less likely to visit socioeconomically different areas while returning to pre-pandemic habits.
In a new study, researchers from MIT and other universities show that personal mobility during the Covid-19 pandemic hasn't fully recovered.
Kent Larson, head of the Media Lab’s City Science group, and PhD student Naroa Coretti Sánchez talk about the group's work and philosophy.
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Mobility-related data show the pandemic has had a lasting effect, limiting the breadth of places people visit in cities.
We use high-resolution geospatial data collected from mobile phones to measure social segregation at an unprecedented resolution in cities …
Media Lab collaborators show that debris from urban beehives can be used to profile the microbiome of a city.
Transforming data into knowledge
Michael Naimark considers the potential of the "real-world metaverse," which combines virtual experiences with specific physical places.
Ceasar McDowell, among others, spoke to participants at the WORLDING workshop on “Land-Use Planning and Authorship."
Aalto University, Finland, and the MIT Media Lab’s City Science group are co-developing a version of the MIT CityScope platform for urban a…
City Science researchers Naroa Coretti, Iñigo Martinez, Luis Alonso, and Kent Larson discuss their research on autonomous shared bicycles.
Naroa Coretti Sanchez, Luis Alonso Pastor, Kent Larson, Can autonomy make bicycle-sharing systems more sustainable? An environmental impact analysis, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Volume 113, 2022, 103489, ISSN 1361-9209, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2022.103489
Hasier Larrea, an alum of the City Science research group, talks about the research that led him to co-found spinoff Ori.
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
The use of data-driven methods to examine dynamic spaces, relationships, and mechanisms within an urban environment frames the city as a co…
You Are Here is an experiment in microurbanism. In this project, we are creating 100 maps each of 100 different cities. Each map gives a c…
A discussion of the future of public transportation, with a highlight of the Autonomous Bicycle project led by PhD student Naroa Coretti.
An interactive platform to improve decision-making related to the revitalization of the Champs ÉlyséesCityScope Champs-Élysée is a ta…
The Synthetic Apiary proposes a new kind of environment, bridging urban and organismic scales by exploring one of the most important organi…
Spinoff Ori, co-founded by alum Hasier Larrea, has announced an agreement to partner with Marriott Hotels’ Design Lab.
Opera of the Future alum Joe Chung writes that Boston is ideally suited to become a hub of the world’s longevity-innovation ecosystem.
Moro, E., Calacci, D., Dong, X. et al. Mobility patterns are associated with experienced income segregation in large US cities. Nat Commun 12, 4633 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24899-8
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…
How data from Access MIT informs flexible, sustainable commutes as staff returns to campus.
