Elisabeth Reynolds, Eran Ben-Joseph, and Vir Chacra urge Congress to protect clean-energy tax credits -- which have mobilized billions of dollars in private investment -- to ensure America’s manufacturing strength and ensure its energy security. More: bit.ly/reynoldsManu...

Congratulations to Julia Lodoen (@mitpolisci.bsky.social) and Mrinalini Penumaka (@mitdusp.bsky.social) on receiving the 2025 Jeanne Guillemin Prize! The grant supports ongoing studies by women PhD candidates in the field of international affairs. Learn more here: cis.mit.edu/opportunitie...

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

Congratulations to @kanarinka.bsky.social from @mit.edu who has been awarded the Emilie Jäger Prize for her research in the field of #DataFeminism. On May 14, she will give a talk entitled "Digital In/Justice and Data Feminism" 👉 digital-in-justice.unibe.ch/index_eng.html

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

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

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

My friend and coauthor Kofi Boone (“The Black Commons” in my co edited book Sacred Civics which is Open Access www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/downl...) at a dinner celebrating his supremely well deserved Kevin Lynch Award from @mitdusp.bsky.social. Kofi, you the man mate!

🌎 Happy Earth Day, Boston! We’re proud to protect and celebrate the green and open spaces that help our city thrive. Huge thanks to our incredible community partners who care for and steward these parks all year long. Let’s keep working together to care for our planet 💚

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

As part of a special issue of Planning Theory and Practice remembering and reflecting on the life and work of Patsy Healey, Prof Bish Sanyal @mitdusp.bsky.social has contributed a reflection on how Healey saw the universal and the contingent in planning theory: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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...

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

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...

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...

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

“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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

Today @ MIT, 6:30 pm: What lessons can the US learn from Zurich's commitment to public benefit and nonprofit housing, implemented through a cooperative model of resource sharing? (In-person only) @sheila-a-dillon.bsky.social @masshousing.bsky.social @mitdusp.bsky.social mailchi.mp/6fd2a0761829...

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

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...

Championing a Vision of Safe Cities that Centers Women and Trans-Queer Experiences -- our project featured on @mitdusp.bsky.social -- dusp.mit.edu/news/champio...

Since I'm new here, I am introducing myself my sharing some of my recent research "Race, profit, and algorithms: Neighborhood-level analysis of iBuyers’ profit margin" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"... 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...

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...

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...

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

"I ultimately chose urban planning as my major because of the human aspect—everyone has experienced urban planning issues," says Kaleigh Spears '25 in a spotlight piece on her time at MIT for MIT Spectrum. More: bit.ly/spearsSpectrum

How might connectivity & automation technologies enhance mobility services, making them more sustainable, equitable, & adaptable? A new grant will fund MITCEE & DUSP research & development of a Multi-level Connected and Automated Transit System (M-CATS). More: bit.ly/ceeZhao

🆕 Trade and the environment: How Vietnam gained from the US-China trade war Today on VoxDev, @mattkahn1966.bsky.social, Wen-Chi Liao & Siqi Zheng @mitdusp.bsky.social outline how Vietnam decoupled growth from environmental degradation: voxdev.org/topic/trade/...

"Housing should be designed and run 'as if human beings matter,' Justice Mya Castañeda (MCP ’13) says, with light and space and beauty—which too often are not given due consideration in low-income housing," writes Kathryn O'Neill for MIT Alumni Association. Learn more: bit.ly/casta%C3%B1e...

What are the likely economic shocks of a rapid and widespread adoption of LLMs? How might policymakers proactively aid communities most affected by likely economic disruptions? Frank Levy and Scott Abrahams explore: bit.ly/levyLlms IC: Whitten Sabbatini for Steve Lohr's @nytimes.com coverage

To offer a more nuanced understanding of mobility within the Boston Metropolitan Area, a joint study by researchers at MIT and Morgan State University examines gender differences in nighttime transit travel use for leisure activities. More: bit.ly/dyNewmarkMob...

The climate crisis will radically transform the human and economic geography of the United States is the 21st century projects.propublica.org/climate-migr...

A new MIT case study, produced by a team of researchers including DUSP's Sungmoon Lim, examines e-waste through the lens of climate & environmental justice. Learn more and access the full case study via Danna Lorch's MIT News coverage: bit.ly/limEwasteLif...

The first organized MIT delegation to the UN Biodiversity Convention, COP16 showcased research from across the Institute on biodiversity conservation, harnessing AI, & the power of local communities. More via MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative's coverage: bit.ly/esiCop16

What are some of the challenges for the implementation of renewable energy & what steps can drivers of the energy transition take to enhance outcomes for affected communities while also accelerating adoption of new technologies? Larry Susskind discusses on What if it Works?: bit.ly/miteiSusskind

With the oldest baby boomers turning 80 in 2026, the number of households headed by a person aged 80 or older will rise nearly 60 percent in the next ten years—an increase of nearly 6 million households. The Center's new household projections are out today: www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/new-pro...

#TRBAM #TransitData Lightning talk highlights (will post link to slides at end of thread): Computer vision for rail platform crowding estimates (Riccardo Fiorista, MIT CEE and @mitdusp.bsky.social Urban Mobility/Transit Lab) and passenger reidentification-based OD matrices (two presenters from RPI)

In 2018 alone, over 3 billion tons of construction & demolition waste was produced by the US, the EU & China. Despite an awareness & need, circular practices have yet to be implemented at scale. What barriers across industry stakeholders can be addressed to encourage adoption? bit.ly/mitBuiltEnvi...

Learn how DUSP's Andres Sevtsuk applies new sources of data to creating more sustainable, walkable, as well as more economically and socially thriving city spaces via Peter Dizikes' MIT News piece: bit.ly/sevtsukWalka... IC: Adam Glanzman

How can we achieve a durable energy transition during times of increasing demand and unpredictable obstacles? Researchers, government officials, and business leaders convened at MIT this fall to envision pathways forward. Learn more via Leda Zimmerman's MIT News coverage: bit.ly/miteiEnergyT...

The MIT Mobility Initiative (MMI) is seeking individuals committed to promoting safe, clean and inclusive mobility systems - interested individuals should apply by 17 January 2025 via: www.mmi.mit.edu/seniorfellows Learn more about MMI, led by DUSP's Jinhua Zhao, here: www.mmi.mit.edu