MIT Senseable City Lab

A decade in and we’re just getting started.
We’re proud to continue our collaboration with , building on years of joint research—including the iconic .tech project, now its own startup—as we head into the next five years of big ideas, big data, and urban innovation.

🍃Re-Leaf🍃 transforms tree distribution data in Amsterdam, Dubai, Los Angeles, and Rome, into dynamic “green skyscrapers”: physical models that allow visitors to intuitively compare vegetation density across very different climates and urban forms.

We are excited to see this exhibition come to life in just about a week!

Congratulations to Carlo! Head to the link in our bio for the full article, which made front-page MIT news.

Umberto recently presented data-based tools that can help city leaders and policymakers make more livable, inclusive, and lively downtowns at session “Emerging Strategies for Downtown Revitalization”.

"A deadly virus, locked in a room of three people, can only infect those three. A great idea, trapped in a single municipal office, may never escape city borders. It’s not just the content; it’s the context."

You can read more on infectious ideas in Carlo's latest piece in Bloomberg CityLab.

How the Science of Infection Can Make Cities Stronger To meet local challenges from climate change to corruption, city governments should make their best ideas go viral.