Topics: School of Architecture + Planning

Puerto Rico’s governor, Ricardo Rosselló ’01, left, visited campus in December to discuss the challenges facing his island with MITEI and the Tata Center’s Robert Stoner. Photo: Justin Knight
Spring 2018

Redefining Resilience

MIT experts mobilize to help hurricane-struck islands not only repair, but rebuild for a safer future

West Philadelphia middle school students, 1999. Students working with WPLP have learned to read their landscape as a product of natural forces and social, economic, and political processes. Photo: Anne Whiston Spirn
Spring 2018

Greening the Block

Anne Whiston Spirn has made the West Philadelphia Landscape Project a model of urban restoration and community empowerment

NYC Skyline
Winter 2018

Facts on the Ground

David Hsu helps cities figure out what’s working in the battle against climate change

photo of graduate students
Winter 2018

At the Intersection

Five grad students on finding their own routes into the policy sphere

DeGraff works with a Haitian student.
Winter 2018

Tool Box

MIT-made online resources address Haitian education, banking reform, and global development