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MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning @mitdusp.bsky.social · Jun 30

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...

Congress Can Secure America’s Clean-Energy Industrial Future

Elisabeth Reynolds, Eran Ben-Joseph and Vir Chachra urge US senators to protect the clean-energy tax credits that are now on the chopping block.

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MIT Center for International Studies @mit-cis.bsky.social · May 15

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...

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MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning @mitdusp.bsky.social · May 12

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

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Universität Bern @unibe.ch · May 7

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

Catherine D'Ignazio
Emilie Jäger Lecture

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MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning @mitdusp.bsky.social · May 5

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

A screenshot of a student project webpage that shows a mobility scale and the cost of living within the area for individual properties

A screenshot of a student project site which shows plots of land on a road with structures loosely outlined

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MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning @mitdusp.bsky.social · Apr 28

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

Five individuals stand in a row holding award certificates in front of themselves

An individual sits in front of a pair of open French doors

The cover of Making Home, showing clothes hanging on a line in front of a mobile home

MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning @mitdusp.bsky.social · Apr 25

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

Rwandan peacekeepers march at UNAMID’s headquarters in El Fasher during the 2012 commemoration of the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers.

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Julian Agyeman @julianagyeman.bsky.social · Apr 25

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!

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Boston Parks Department @parks.boston.gov · Apr 22

🌎 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 💚

Waterfront landscape at Condor Street Urban Wild

Volunteers clean up wooded area during Urban Wilds program

Volunteers smile with trash collected at Urban Wilds cleanup

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MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning @mitdusp.bsky.social · Apr 18

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

Photo of Barnstable Harbor with piers, buildings, water and boats.

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Planning Theory & Practice @planningtheory.bsky.social · Apr 15

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....

PATSY HEALEY IS DEAD: Long Live Contingent Universalism

Published in Planning Theory & Practice (Ahead of Print, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning @mitdusp.bsky.social · Apr 14

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...

Students are led on a tour of a vacant row home in Baltimore, old gray plaster can be seen above a fireplace, with four individuals in the frame of the photo.

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MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning @mitdusp.bsky.social · Apr 14

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

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MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning @mitdusp.bsky.social · Apr 11

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...

Picture of townhouses, each painted in a shade from black to white, showing a grayscale effect

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MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning @mitdusp.bsky.social · Apr 9

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...

Photo of five pairs of muddy boots, shot from above.

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MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning @mitdusp.bsky.social · Apr 4

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

MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning @mitdusp.bsky.social · Mar 31

“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

Protestors demonstrate demanding fair housing

MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning @mitdusp.bsky.social · Mar 28

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...

A city skyline image (of London) is shaded blue, with nodes and icons overlaid to represent data extracted from the urban environment

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MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning @mitdusp.bsky.social · Mar 24

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

Row of houses with lights on located on a canal in Amsterdam

MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning @mitdusp.bsky.social · Mar 17

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

Side-by-side headshots of Paloma Duong, Frank Schilbach, and Justin Steil

MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning @mitdusp.bsky.social · Mar 14

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

A map of the globe, with colored dots denoting natural landscape features and helping to outline land mass. 8 cities are highlighted, which are part of the study.

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MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning @mitdusp.bsky.social · Mar 10

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

5 by 4 photo grid featuring researcher headshots; pics of researchers giving presentations or lab tours, working with students, and working with people in the field; along with other water and food images like water in jars, crop plants in a lab, and a hand holding a shrimp

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MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning @mitdusp.bsky.social · Mar 7

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...

Screenshot of two pages from Serhiy Rodionov’s team’s presentation “Re: Maripol.” the left page features examples of redevelopment sketched over an existing screen, shown at scale and from an isometric point of view. The right page shows an example, from Switzerland, of multi-use, human-scale and dense housing development.

A rendering of the unnamed peninsula in Maripol, envisioning how the space could be transformed to be part of green space, a transportation network, and space for the public use.

MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning @mitdusp.bsky.social · Mar 3

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...

MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning @mitdusp.bsky.social · Feb 28

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

Carlo Ratti stands in front of water with arms outstretched

A bus, in a designated bus lane, is stopped because an illegally parked delivery vehicle

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