Kent Larson

The study of human behavior in urban environment is an important field in city sciences. However, it's usually not easy to collect behavior…

We crowdsourced and published a first-of-its-kind open dataset that contains Amazon purchase histories, spanning 2018 to 2022, from more th…

CityFlow is a versatile tool that allows users to design, evaluate, and visualize urban solutions through an llm-integrated, case-based sys…

Optimizing environmental, social, and economic performance of citiesCities play a central role in the climate crisis. According to the late…

One of the pending tasks of science is to strengthen public participation in the dialogue with the scientific community. One proposed solut…

CARTOVIAJESVincular la experiencia literaria y urbana a través del tiempo y de los viajesLinking Literary and Urban Experience through Time…

​IntroductionThe typology of sociotechnical transition pathways, as developed by Geels and Schot, provides a theoretical foundation for und…

Ride into the Future: Discover the MIT Autonomous Bicycle Project!NOTE: This version of the website has been specifically designed for the …

Exploring Sustainability

Revolutionizing Urban Mobility

The research on Community-based Social Innovation focuses on the reshaping of urban spaces by human social behavior, incorporating an analy…

COVID-19 pandemic served as a catalyst for reimagining urban spaces and emphasized the need for walkable, life-work balanced coummunities.&…

In the CityScope platform, we leverage humanized Agent-Based Models (h-ABMs) to elevate urban simulation to new heights of realism and comp…

The Generative Land Use project aims to revolutionize urban planning by developing a cutting-edge algorithm that generates the ideal land u…

Mobility Choices is used to predict transportation mode choices of students at the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) within the Guadalajara …

Es un sistema de simulación y visualización urbana que permite configurar escenarios de intervenciones y así evaluar las posibles repercusi…

zkTax is a zero-knowledge tax disclosure system that allows individuals to make provable claims about select information in their tax retur…

The BentoScope is a portable iteration of the CityScope platform, conceived by the City Science group at the MIT Media Lab. This compact ve…

Urban mobility is changing at an increasingly rapid pace.  In this context, stakeholders such as governments and mobility operators ne…

CityScope Costanera is a tangible platform that outlines the Costanera neighborhood of Concepcion, Biobío Chile. The Costanera de Concepció…

Increasing equity and affordability through fractional ownership including the creation of local economies that promote prosocial behaviors…

The SoCity project aims to build a non-profit DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) to bring together communities, individuals and or…

Data-Driven Mobility Choice Modeling for Dallas TXJobs and entrepreneurship to foster informal business transformation into 'more formal' e…

City Science Lab Toronto was established in cooperation with Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada.  It  started in 2018 and is t…

The City Science Lab @ Taipei is a cooperation between The National Taipei University of Technology, also called NTUT or Taipei Tech, …

Humanizing Agent-Based Models (h-ABM) emerges as a pioneering technique to simulate real-world behaviors, aiming to seamlessly bridge …

The MIT City Science team will work with Ben-Gurion University (BGU) in Beersheba on a new collaboration to create the City Science Lab @ I…

Gastronomy and Beyond (G+B) aims to unite individuals who contribute to innovation in the realms of culture, products, territories, sustain…

Door-to-door drone package deliveries are taking off across the US.  In this work we expose and study a newly emerging privacy is…

Understanding the link between urban planning and commuting flows is crucial for guiding urban development and policymaking. This research,…

OverviewWe found that vegan and vegetarian labels commonly found on menu items have a significantly negative impact on consumer's likelihoo…

A distributed sensing system for managing water resources in informal communities.

The MIT City Science team will work with the Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa and Mubil Fundazioa on a new collaboration to create the City Sci…

Could we substitute cars by shared autonomous lightweight vehicles for food delivery? We have developed an agent-based simulation model tha…

Urban mobility can often be categorized as a complex system—e.g., a nonlinear system composed of many components that interact with each …

The MIT City Science team will work with the Cámara Chilena de la Construcción (CChC), Corporación Ciudades, and the Biobío regional govern…

The City Science group uses simulations and visualizations to explain to stakeholders, including citizens, the various "what if" scenarios …

Low-cost, modular, open source, and portable bio-reactor for urban bio-sensor development.

Community-scale profiling sensor node for  ocean monitoring and community coordination of fishing activities. 

Chameleon is a machine learning enhanced sensor system that uses CO2 and PIR sensors to classify room occupancy and use.

Autonomous bicycles have recently been proposed as a new and more efficient approach to bicycle-sharing systems, but how do they compare fr…

City Science researchers are engaging in an exploratory process to understand, develop, and model a platform with a focus on the 15-minute …

Two Mobility Futures 0∞ is a research project that encompasses storytelling, a democratic decision making platform, a city model, and an im…

ESG+Community

RoboScope is a transformable, tangible-interface developed for the CityScope platform. This interface allows for on-demand, three-dime…

Following The Power of Without agenda, the City Science group proposes the Informality Crowdsourced Database. This platform …

Huertos Comunitarios Keyhole en Lomas del Centinela Keyhole Community Gardens in Lomas del Centinela

Protegiendo el bosque del CentinelaPromover y brindar las herramientas necesarias en el comportamiento del fuego y en el manejo de incident…

Somos centinelas: hacia una educación sin barreras de accesoWe are Sentinels: Towards an education without access barriersLa Univ…

Tangible Swarm is a tool that displays relevant information about a robotics system (e.g., multi-robot, swarm, etc.) in real time whil…

 A Handheld Device for Realtime Spatial Movement, Remote Control and Perspectival Orientation between Physical objects and Digital 3-D…

TerMITes are a wireless environmental sensor platform that enables designers and researchers with the necessary tools to capture envir…

Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spreadThe MIT Media Lab City Science group and the Andorra Innova…

JettSen is  an open source mobile sensor system that enables citizens, urban planners, and city officials to collectively address urba…

Following The Power of Without agenda, the City Science group proposes the Technologies Toolkit. This research aims to translate the knowle…

 UN Habitat recognized in its Global Report on Human Settlements an effort to address informality with unconventional approaches, focu…

Agent Based Modeling for behaviours, building occupancy loads and risk infection at the University of Guadalajara. In collaboration wi…

Walking as the most natural form of urban mobility plays a crucial role in shaping the quality of daily life. However, safety concerns ofte…

Resilience Across Scales is a research theme that encompasses the work of a few Media Lab Principal Investigators and their research groups…

Whispers Of The Mountain is a  sensor system mounted on snow skis.  The system allows for crowdsourcing environmental data of mou…

Agent-Based Modelling for water management: a study case of the Bac Hung Hai irrigation system in the Red River Delta, Vietnam.

With(in) is a multi-stage project that includes an exhibit, installation, qualitative exploration, and visual storytelling.This is a s…

Virtual CityScope Champs-Élysées is an interactive and immersive platform that explores the future of Paris’ most important street.

Governments and researchers around the world are implementing digital contact tracing solutions to stem the spread of infectious disease, n…

There is a continuous and ubiquitous collection of precise, timestamped, geolocation data from apps and devices, being amassed by private f…

An interactive  platform to improve decision-making related to the revitalization of the Champs ÉlyséesCityScope Champs-Élysée is a ta…

This is a two-part project. One part is about reality. The other part is science fiction. Both are about mobile, blockchain, and cryptograp…

Proxymix is a visualization tool to understand the influence of spatial configuration on human collaboration. This agent-based model at the…

Is the placement of bike-share docks equitable?This interactive map explores the question visually.The map shows the addition of bike-share…

The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…

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…

Unfolding the way we move. Mobility has shaped the built environment since humans started settling together. From industrial towns to …

College of Design and Innovation of Tongji University, Shanghai, and the MIT Media Lab's City Science group are co-developing a version of …

As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers, …

This project aims to create a modular platform for exploring micro-kitchens that are culture specific. Cooking is a personal experience tha…

Autonomous vehicles (AVs), drones, and other types of robots will revolutionize our way of traveling and understanding urban space. In orde…

What is FindingPlaces?In reaction to the sudden arrival of tens of thousands of refugees in the city of Hamburg (DE) in 2015, the Lord Mayo…

We are at the dawn of a mobility revolution, where autonomous vehicles will replace cars controlled by humans. We can imagine this developi…

The City Science Lab@Guadalajara is a collaboration with the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), a network composed of 15 campuses within the…

Modern cities have to respond to the growing demands of more efficient and sustainable urban development, as well as an increased quality o…

MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …

How can we get more value from the same buildings? Cities contain many different resources and spaces and typically, these resources o…

Data Fusion for Dynamic Traffic PredictionTraffic congestion has huge negative impacts on the productivity, health and personal lives …

In architecture, the building skin is the primary interface for mediating the environment of the external with the internal. But today, thi…

Tongji University, Shanghai, and the MIT Media Lab's City Science group are co-developing a version of the MIT CityScope platform for …

Predicting Urban Performance through Behavioral Patterns in Temporal Telecom DataThis study explores a novel method to analyze diverse beha…

The esc-Pod  (or Escape Pod) is an exploratory platform for researchers investigating moments of refuge within our bustling work lives…

An Urban Decision-Support System Augmented by Artificial IntelligenceThe decision-making process in urban design and urban planning is outd…

Developed by Ira Winder with the MIT Centre for Transportation and Logistics, the model seeks to use real population data and create a simu…

Research in dynamic tools, mix users (citizens, workers) amenities, services, and land use, with the goal of promoting sustainable developm…

View the main City Science Andorra project profileWith no airport or train service, most of the 8 million tourists who visit Andorra each y…

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.With more than eight million visitors a year, tourism represents almost 30% of the econo…

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.The MIT Media Lab's City Science research group, the University of Andorra, and national…

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…

The Andorra Living Lab project combines different research topics (Tourism, Innovation, Energy & Environment, Mobility, Dynamic urban p…

Changing Places researchers are developing scalable strategies for understanding and creating hyper-efficient, technology-enabled spaces t…

Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and p…

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…

MIT City Science is working with HafenCity University to develop digital tools to enable more livable communities. In one project, the team…

The development of transportation improvements in any city poses a range of challenges, including meaningfully involving relevant stakehold…

CityScope MarkIVb is programmed to demonstrate and model the relationship between land use (live and work), population density, parking sup…

This project depicts the design, deployment and operation of a Tangible Regulation Platform, a physical-technological apparatus made for th…

The Dynamic 3D prototype allows users to edit a digital model by moving physical 3D abstractions of building typologies. Movements are auto…

The CityScope "Scout" prototype integrates augmented reality with real-time mathematical modeling of geospatial systems. In practice, the t…

We share the vision of cities as places where people live and work, connected by better mobility systems that are sustainable and enable a …

An Alternative Autonomous Revolution System design for emerging urban contexts and societal aspirationsThe Persuasive Electric Vehicle…