This course focuses on data analytics, new urban systems, real-time simulation, and urban design strategies that can enable more entrepreneurial, livable, high-performance urban districts. Over three days, students will experience lectures by MIT experts, and will participate in hands-on exercises using the MIT CityScope platform.
Day 1: Overview and City Science Case studies
- Welcome and Course Overview - Kent Larson - MIT Media Lab
- Energy, Environmental, Mobility and Housing Challenges in Cities - Kent Larson - MIT Media Lab
- CityScope: Urban Simulation and Decision Support - Luis Alonso, Arnaud Grignard - MIT Media Lab
- Case Study Hamburg - CityScope for Refugees - Kent Larson - MIT Media Lab
- Case Study Andorra - Luis Alonso, Arnaud Grignard, Carson Smuts (MIT Media Lab)
- AI Systems for Urban Design - Ryan Zhang - MIT Media Lab
- Urban Perception - Cesar Hidalgo - MIT Media Lab
- Informal Settlements - Markus Elkatsha - MIT Media Lab
- Demos of Current City Science Research & Introduction to Group Exercise
- Overview and Discussion: Kent Larson
Day 2: Overview and City Science Case studies
- Environmental Sensing - Carson Smuts - MIT Media Lab
- Design Democratization - Yasushi Sakai - MIT Media Lab
- Enabling Entrepreneurship in Cities - Edward Glaeser - Harvard
- Urban Development Ventures and Entrepreneurship - Joost Bonsen - MIT Media Lab
- Agent-based Modeling - Arnaud Grignard - MIT Media Lab
- Modeling Human Dynamics - Sandy Pentland - MIT Media Lab
- Overview and Discussion: Kent Larson
Day 3: Mobility, Logistics, Energy & Live-Work
- Urban Housing Systems - Hasier Larrea - CEO, Ori Systems
- Health and SleepX - Jason Nawyn - MIT Media Lab
- Blockchain, Data Privacy and Trust Networks - John Clippinger - CEO ID3
- Technology for Governance and Public Policy in Cities - Nigel Jacob -City of Boston
- Perspectives on Megacity Logistics - Matthias Winkenbach - MIT Megacity Logistics Lab
- Urban Design, Mobility Energy, and Building Energy - Luis Alonso - MIT Media Lab
- Personal Autonomous Vehicles - Michael Lin - MIT Media Lab
- Urban Agriculture - Kent Larson - MIT Media Lab
- Group Exercise
- Final Review and Discussion: Kent Larson
- Final Summary and Certificates: Kent Larson