[Webinar MIT] Smart Cities and Urban Development

Cities are evolving in response to global challenges such as climate change, public health, and economic competitiveness, all while harnessing the power of digital technologies. This webinar highlights groundbreaking research from MIT, featuring innovative tools and strategies designed to shape smarter and more sustainable urban environments.

Join this webinar to explore pioneering projects from MIT’s Senseable City Lab, a multidisciplinary research group transforming urban living worldwide. From urban mobility and biodiversity to environmental quality and community well-being, the presentation showcases how digital technologies are reshaping cities at every scale—from individual buildings to entire metropolises.

Additionally, explore the Urban Network Analysis framework, a powerful tool for modeling the relationship between city design and sustainable mobility at the pedestrian scale. This approach equips planners and policymakers to measure pedestrian access, assess the impacts of land-use changes, and prioritize projects that advance sustainable urban mobility.

This webinar provides invaluable perspectives for anyone dedicated to creating smarter, more livable cities.

• Senseable City Labs
  by Umberto Fugiglando, Research Manager & Partnerships Lead, MIT Senseable City Lab
  
  Digital technologies are radically changing the way we understand, design, and ultimately live in cities. This is having an impact at different scales – from the single building to the scale of the metropolis. Spanning from urban mobility to biodiversity, from environmental quality to community wellbeing, we will address these issues from a critical point of view through some of the latest projects by the Senseable City Lab, a multi-disciplinary research group at MIT that is developing research in many cities across the globe.
  
  
• The Green Mobility City: Tools for Modeling Built Environments at the Pedestrian Scale
  By Andres Sevtsuk, Head, City Design and Development Group.
  Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning, Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP)
  
  The global climate-change crisis, along with public health and economic competitiveness challenges faced by cities worldwide, underscores the urgent need for analytical tools and models to explore the relationship between city design and sustainable mobility. In this presentation, Andres Sevtsuk will introduce the Urban Network Analysis framework, a tool for modeling land-use and transportation interactions at the pedestrian scale. This framework enables planners and policymakers to assess pedestrian access to urban destinations and evaluate the effects of land-use and infrastructure changes on pedestrian mobility. Such analyses empower planners, designers, and policymakers to prioritize projects that enhance sustainable mobility outcomes.