City Science Network

Researchers from the City Science group collaborated with the Tiresia research group at the Politecnico di Milano to examine the impact, go…

What if vehicles could serve different needs throughout the day?

In this intensive and immersive 5-day workshop, students will dive into the underlying currents shaping Shanghai's future, guided by an awa…

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

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

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

City Science and Andorra Research + Innovation teams are currently working on two research directions: Food Waste in Andorra, Insight …

Finding Places: HCI Platform for Public Participation in Refugees’ Accommodation Process. Ariel Noyman , Tobias Holtz, Johannes Kröger, Jörg Rainer Noennig, Kent Larson. a Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab, Changing Places Group, Cambridge MA, b HafenCity University Hamburg, CityScienceLab, c HafenCity University Hamburg, Lab for Geoinformatics & Geovisualization

Analyze and visualize urban interaction with computer vision and deep neural net. 

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

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

Instructors:Kent LarsonLuis AlonsoGuest critics:Norman Foster The Norman Foster FoundationCourse description:By 2050, 3.5 billion peop…

Humanitarian Mapping. ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining August 23-27, 2020

Berke A, Doorley R, Alonso L, Arroyo V, Pons M, & Larson, K. (2022) Using mobile phone data to estimate dynamic population changes and improve the understanding of a pandemic: A case study in Andorra. PLOS ONE 17(4): e0264860. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264860

Noyman, A., Doorley, R., Xiong, Z., Alonso, L., Grignard, A. and Larson, K., 2019. Reversed urbanism: Inferring urban performance through behavioral patterns in temporal telecom data. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 46(8), pp.1480-1498.

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

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

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

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