How could funds and opportunities created through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal help rebuild and strengthen existing infrastructure for a more sustainable and just future? How will the impacts of the pandemic change how we plan and utilize downtowns? Guests Jeff Levine and Chris Rhie (MCP '14, SM '14) join hosts Tiffany Ferguson (MCP '18) and …

Guests Gabriella Carolini and Darryle Ulama (MCP '21) join hosts Tiffany Ferguson (MCP '18) and Samra Lakew (MCP '20) to discuss the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal. The Infrastructure Deal is designed to deliver clean water to all American families, extend and update broadband networks, repair and modernize roads and bridges to adapt to the climate…

Great resignation, working remotely, essential work and essential workers - the landscape of employment, labor, economics, and finance shifted dramatically during the COVID 19 pandemic. Seen through that lens, what might we infer about trajectory of the future of work?Guests Jason Jackson (PhD '13) and Carolyn Weng Yang (MCP '20) join hosts Tiffany…

Guest Holly Harriel (MCP '03) and Dasjon Jordan (MCP '19) join hosts Tiffany Ferguson (MCP '18) and Samra Lakew (MCP '20) to explore how community and economic development in the pursuit of more just and equitable cities has been transformed by disruptions associated with the COVID 19 pandemic. Season two of the Planning Ideas that Matter (PITM) po…

DUSP's Justin Steil and Sam Jung (MCP '17) join hosts Tiffany Ferguson (MCP '18) and Samra Lakew (MCP '20) to explore the interconnectivity of environmental justice and spatial inequality. Steil is an associate professor at DUSP whose research analyzes how power and inequality are created and contested through control over access to particular plac…

How has the global COVID-19 pandemic changed the real estate industry and shifted our behavior in relation to real estate? Hosts Tiffany Ferguson (MCP '18) and Samra Lakew (MCP '20) explore this question with DUSP's Andrea Marie Chegut and MIT alum Kayode Agbalajobi (SM '20).Chegut was the Director and Co-Founder of the MIT Real Estate Innovation L…

In the third episode of the second season of Planning Ideas that Matter (PITM), hosts Tiffany Ferguson (MCP '18) and Samra Lakew (MCP '20) are joined by Fábio Duarte and DUSP alumna Taskina Tareen (MCP '18) to discuss how design can be leveraged to enhance urban planning goals such as enhancing community engagement, introducing more playfulness int…

Episode Two of Season Two features guests Andres Sevtsuk and Lindiwe Rennert. Sevtsuk (SM '06, PhD '10) is the Head of the City Design and Development Group (CDD) and the Charles and Ann Spaulding Career Development Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning at DUSP. His research focuses on public qualities of cities, and on making urban env…

How has the global COVID-19 pandemic shaped the field of urban planning? In the second season of Planning Ideas that Matter (PITM), hosts Tiffany Ferguson (MCP '18) and Samra Lakew (MCP '20) explore this question with members of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) faculty as well as MIT alumnae/i. In the first episode of Season 2, T…

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The sixth episode of Planning Ideas that Matter, featuring guest Albert Saiz, Director of the Urban Economics Lab and a faculty member at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Saiz explores the relationship between real estate developers and urban planners - and what the introduction of urban science, big data, and robotization will mean fo…

The fifth episode of Planning Ideas that Matter, starts where we left off in our previous episode to discuss how disruptive technologies will impact labor markets and why that is a part of the lexicon of urban planners. Planning Ideas that Matter is a podcast built upon faculty debates held in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Mas…

The fourth episode of Planning Ideas that Matter, a podcast built upon faculty debates held in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Fall 2017 debates fall under the broad heading - Urban Science: Regression to Technocracy or Pathway to Progressive Planning?Episodes four through six focus on …

The third episode of Planning Ideas that Matter, a podcast built upon faculty debates held in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Fall 2017 debates fall under the broad heading - Urban Science: Regression to Technocracy or Pathway to Progressive Planning?In the first three episodes we will …

The second episode of Planning Ideas that Matter, a podcast built upon faculty debates held in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Fall 2017 debates fall under the broad heading - Urban Science: Regression to Technocracy or Pathway to Progressive Planning?In the first three episodes we will…

The first episode of Planning Ideas that Matter, a podcast built upon faculty debates held in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Fall 2017 debates fall under the broad heading - Urban Science: Regression to Technocracy or Pathway to Progressive Planning?In the first three episodes we will …