Today, Seymour Papert would have been 96 years old (or would it be 24 leap years?). His ideas continue to influence and inspire me.

We welcomed the leadership of NUR, our newest Network member, to MIT City Science last week. We will collaborate with Merav Battat (Director) and Yonatan Cohen (CTO) on several projects in the City of Be'er Sheva focused on “Desert Tech.”

Gastronomy and beyond • More than gastronomy, beyond food. (Excerpt from Gastronomy and Beyond: The Event) Watch the full recording: media.mit.edu/projects/gastr…

This week, City Science group was able to demo for the attendees of MIT Technology Review's Emtech Digital 2025.

PhD candidate Alex Berke released this novel open dataset that contains Amazon purchase histories, spanning 2018 to 2022. Learn more in the CSCW medium article: medium.com/acm-cscw/insig…

Last night, I had the opportunity to speak at ChileMass’s Innovation Day alongside Luis Alonso Pastor and Martín Andrade. City Science group @mitcityscience instagram.com/p/DA9FZGRvWtD/…

✅ Avui estem al City Science Summit 2024 organizat pel nostre soci Andorra Recerca + Innovació i MIT City Science. ✅ Benvinguda per part de Vanesa Arroyo i primera conferència per part de Kent Larson #innovació #cityscience #andorra🇦🇩

Read my conversation with Diari Andorra's Gerard E. Wall about the powerful collaboration between City Science group and Andorra Recerca + Innovació City Science Lab diariandorra.ad/la-contra/2410…

Design and construction are managed by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation. If bike lane construction continues towards Harvard, MassDCR must find ways to maintain the flow of bicycles and pedestrians along the path … just as they would with cars

Few people actually use this detour as it is impractical and dangerous, preferring instead to walk or bike in the busy Memorial Drive car lane adjacent to the construction. Today I witnessed dozens of people forced to bike in traffic, including a mother with a young child.

During construction, intended to make biking safer, bicyclists and pedestrians are asked to detour across the busy 4-lane Memorial Drive twice, creating hazardous conditions.

A section of the Memorial Drive bike lane was shut down last week. This is one of the most popular and heavily used bike routes in the Greater Boston area, connecting Harvard University, MIT, and downtown Boston along the Charles River in Cambridge.

Each year, tens of thousands of cyclists use the Charles River Bike Path. The State of Massachusetts needs to do a far better job of managing disruptions to this key artery for both commuters and recreational users during construction. Governor Maura Healey Mass.gov City of Cambridge

At the Cathedral of Brasília by architect Oscar Niemeyer, with Luis Alonso, Gabriela Bila, and Ariel Palitz, the former New York City “Nightlife Mayor,” Brasília, Brazil

… a short video with our hopes for 2025

Congratulations to the scholars of the 2024 Programme on Sustainable Cities at the Norman Foster Institute: Co-directed by Norman Foster and Kent Larson.

Mathis Bitton and Elizabeth Haas mention City Science's CityScope project in their article "How AI Can Help Tackle Collective Decision-Making." hbr.org/2025/08/how-ai…