LCAU

The mission of the MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center of Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) is to establish a new theoretical and applied research platform to create knowledge that can be used to transform the quality of life throughout the urbanized world. LCAU is committed to achieving this goal through collaborative interdisciplinary research projects using design as a mode of inquiry, intellectual discourse, and dissemination through leadership forums, conferences, publications, and teaching... LCAU's mission is motivated by the radical changes in our urbanizing environment that are bound to increase in size and importance in the future. The fields examining urban phenomena are diverse. Each focusing on one aspect of the problem, they either fail to address their interconnection or if they do, they become too abstract or too detached from the design of alternative solutions to complex problems. To help improve urban environments today, we need to address this complexity by bringing the..

Primary location: Cambridge United States