The city is her lab | MIT News
Siqi Zheng studies the economics of China’s urban explosion.
July 3, 2018 • ~7 min
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Dennis Frenchman named head of the MIT Center for Real Estate | MIT News
Architect and urban designer brings to the role decades of global expertise on the transformation of cities
July 2, 2018 • ~3 min
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China Venture Workshop announces first cohort | MIT News
Ten teams will collaborate with local partners, pilot solutions to urban challenges.
May 31, 2018 • ~9 min
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Measuring the economy with location data | MIT News
Startup’s platform crunches anonymized smartphone GPS data to understand how people shop, work, and live.
March 27, 2018 • ~9 min
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New connector helps faculty, student startups launch in China | MIT News
The new connector helps faculty, students, and alumni launch startups in China.
Feb. 14, 2018 • ~3 min
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Turning real estate data into decision-making tools | MIT News
New Real Estate Price Dynamics Research Platform from the MIT Center for Real Estate offers predictive power to investors.
Dec. 22, 2017 • ~6 min
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MIT launches China Future City Lab | MIT News
New urban studies program to spur research and innovation in China.
Nov. 20, 2017 • ~7 min
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MIT and Tsinghua University sign urban innovation agreement | MIT News
Future City Innovation Connector to support projects addressing rapid growth of Chinese cities.
Sept. 19, 2017 • ~4 min
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3 Questions: Brent Ryan on Hurricane Harvey’s implications for U.S. cities | MIT News
Stranded in Houston by hurricane floodwaters, an MIT associate professor sees firsthand how design and policy decisions affected the storm’s impact.
Sept. 1, 2017 • ~9 min
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Building to better weather the storm | MIT News
New dashboard developed by the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub helps builders calculate the breakeven cost of hazard mitigation in hurricane-prone areas.
June 13, 2017 • ~5 min
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