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    Click here for more info. Check out the projects the awardees of our recent Sidara Urban Research Seed Grants are pursuing.

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    Click here for our recent press release for our ongoing Benchmark project in Sydney.

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    Click here to RSVP: Join us for our upcoming symposium on October 4th at 10:15am at the Long Lounge (7-429). More info here

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    Click here for more info. Look back at our recent exhibition - Unboxed City: critical explorations of ai and cities.

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    Click here for more info. Recap our tenth anniversary conference on the intersection of AI, Urbanism, and Climate Change.

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    Read about the LCAU and DesignX Energy Transition Ideathon in Mexico City, which is part of an ongoing collaboration with Mota-Engil Mexico [Image credit: R.M. Nunes]
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    Explore design proposals from MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning developed in response to the devastating explosion at the Port of Beirut, Lebanon, supported by the Dar Group [Credit: Matteo Losurdo]
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    Explore the climate resilient waterfront park for all on the Malden River [Credit: Marie Law Adams]
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    A partnership between the Civic Data Design Lab (CDDL) and Future Heritage Lab (FHL) at MIT and supported by Dar Group [Credit: Ashley Louie]

Urbanism constitutes one of the most complex societal challenges of today’s world. MIT's Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) is motivated by the radical changes in our urbanizing environment, and focuses on the design and planning of large-scale, complex, metropolitan environments.