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Rebuilding Ukraine: Professor Brent Ryan

Ukrainian cities face extensive destruction and long-term recovery challenges. To support future rebuilding efforts, the Association of Ukrainian Cities, Mariupol City Council, and Mariupol Reborn launched the Community Recovery Academy, a virtual training program that connects municipal leaders with expertise from MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP). The series focuses on planning, economic development, housing, transportation resilience, and strategies to secure funding for reconstruction. MIT faculty share case studies, planning frameworks, and practical insights tailored

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Rebuilding Ukraine: Dr. Timothy Sturgeon

Ukrainian cities face extensive destruction and long-term recovery challenges. To support future rebuilding efforts, the Association of Ukrainian Cities, Mariupol City Council, and Mariupol Reborn launched the Community Recovery Academy, a virtual training program that connects municipal leaders with expertise from MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP). The series focuses on planning, economic development, housing, transportation resilience, and strategies to secure funding for reconstruction. MIT faculty share case studies, planning frameworks, and practical insights tailored

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Rebuilding Ukraine: Professor Andres Sevtsuk

Ukrainian cities face extensive destruction and long-term recovery challenges. To support future rebuilding efforts, the Association of Ukrainian Cities, Mariupol City Council, and Mariupol Reborn launched the Community Recovery Academy, a virtual training program that connects municipal leaders with expertise from MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP). The series focuses on planning, economic development, housing, transportation resilience, and strategies to secure funding for reconstruction. MIT faculty share case studies, planning frameworks, and practical insights tailored

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Rebuilding Ukraine: Professor Jeffrey Levine

Ukrainian cities face extensive destruction and long-term recovery challenges. To support future rebuilding efforts, the Association of Ukrainian Cities, Mariupol City Council, and Mariupol Reborn launched the Community Recovery Academy, a virtual training program that connects municipal leaders with expertise from MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP). The series focuses on planning, economic development, housing, transportation resilience, and strategies to secure funding for reconstruction. MIT faculty share case studies, planning frameworks, and practical insights tailored

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Rebuilding Ukraine: Professor Albert Saiz Pt.2

Ukrainian cities face extensive destruction and long-term recovery challenges. To support future rebuilding efforts, the Association of Ukrainian Cities, Mariupol City Council, and Mariupol Reborn launched the Community Recovery Academy, a virtual training program that connects municipal leaders with expertise from MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP). The series focuses on planning, economic development, housing, transportation resilience, and strategies to secure funding for reconstruction. MIT faculty share case studies, planning frameworks, and practical insights tailored

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Rebuilding Ukraine: Professor Mary Anne Ocampo

Ukrainian cities face extensive destruction and long-term recovery challenges. To support future rebuilding efforts, the Association of Ukrainian Cities, Mariupol City Council, and Mariupol Reborn launched the Community Recovery Academy, a virtual training program that connects municipal leaders with expertise from MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP). The series focuses on planning, economic development, housing, transportation resilience, and strategies to secure funding for reconstruction. MIT faculty share case studies, planning frameworks, and practical insights tailored

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Rebuilding Ukraine: Professor Elisabeth Reynolds

Ukrainian cities face extensive destruction and long-term recovery challenges. To support future rebuilding efforts, the Association of Ukrainian Cities, Mariupol City Council, and Mariupol Reborn launched the Community Recovery Academy, a virtual training program that connects municipal leaders with expertise from MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP). The series focuses on planning, economic development, housing, transportation resilience, and strategies to secure funding for reconstruction. MIT faculty share case studies, planning frameworks, and practical insights tailored

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Rebuilding Ukraine: Professor Albert Saiz Pt. 1

Ukrainian cities face extensive destruction and long-term recovery challenges. To support future rebuilding efforts, the Association of Ukrainian Cities, Mariupol City Council, and Mariupol Reborn launched the Community Recovery Academy, a virtual training program that connects municipal leaders with expertise from MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP). The series focuses on planning, economic development, housing, transportation resilience, and strategies to secure funding for reconstruction. MIT faculty share case studies, planning frameworks, and practical insights tailored

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Rebuilding Ukraine: Professor Jinhua Zhao

Ukrainian cities face extensive destruction and long-term recovery challenges. To support future rebuilding efforts, the Association of Ukrainian Cities, Mariupol City Council, and Mariupol Reborn launched the Community Recovery Academy, a virtual training program that connects municipal leaders with expertise from MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP). The series focuses on planning, economic development, housing, transportation resilience, and strategies to secure funding for reconstruction. MIT faculty share case studies, planning frameworks, and practical insights tailored

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RJR Theme 6: Context and History

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Elisabeth Reynolds, Eran Ben-Joseph, and Vir Chacra urge Congress to protect cle

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...

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On May 17th join us for 'Hacking the Racial Wealth Gap,' a fun 8-hour day of inf

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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More than half of Bostonians spend more than 30% of their income just to keep th

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

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Awards and honors for case studies, work, community building and influence in th

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

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How do peacekeeping missions plan for their withdrawal from a conflict zone and

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

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Learn how the MIT Renewable Energy Clinic utilizes a nonpartisan approach to wor

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

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How might the #policy, #urbanplanning, and #architecture help design interventio

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...

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Kofi Boone, winner of the 2025 Kevin Lynch Award, centers his work on democratic

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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A new DUSP Open Learning course, Leadership in Planning, offers practical skills

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...

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Next Wednesday (April 16, 2025) join DUSP and HEET for a discussion about an equ

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...

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How can we tap into spirituality, reverence, or deeply held values to drive mean

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

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“The ‘Upanayana Project’ blends ‘that history and my lived experience as a queer

“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

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Does urban science -- using computational methods & data analysis to address urb

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...

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Many people are living in energy poverty - meaning they spend at least 8% of the

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

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Please join us in congratulating Justin Steil, named a 2025 MacVicar Faculty Fel

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

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How might we better understand how we perceive and value nature in our urban env

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

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For 10 years, MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Water & Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) has sup

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

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A virtual Community Recovery Academy that leans on MIT’s expertise, offers onlin

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...

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How will the United States incorporate advanced manufacturing into its industria

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...

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Drawing attention to the public health concerns of transportation in American ci

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

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entwined, the second volume of the student publication, Silt, explores our relat

entwined, the second volume of the student publication, Silt, explores our relationship with land and space. "Our second volume establishes Silt as a home for creative work that swirls across physical and digital space,” write co-editors Lucy Corlett and Olivia Fiol. More: bit.ly/siltVolume2

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The Equitably Resilient City, named the 2025 Best Book in Urban Affairs Award, e

The Equitably Resilient City, named the 2025 Best Book in Urban Affairs Award, explores "how people look at problems more holistically — to show how environmental impacts are integrated with their livelihoods." Learn more via Peter Dizikes ' MIT news coverage: bit.ly/valeEquitabl...