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Bill Mitchell
Director, The Media Lab’s Smart Cities Group, MIT
William J. Mitchell and the members of the MIT Smart Cities research group are creating innovative ways to change how we live in urban areas through, in part, the application of new technologies that enable urban energy efficiency and sustainability, and enhance opportunity, equity, and cultural creativity. Smart Cities research is particularly concerned with the emerging roles of networked intelligence in fabrication and construction, urban mobility, building design and intelligently responsive operation, and public space. The group explores the new forms and functions of cities in the digital electronic era, and suggests design and planning directions for the future.
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Cities won’t look like “some sort of science-fiction fantasy,” but it’s likely that technological advances and information overlays will change the way we live in significant ways.
10 min
“It came out of some esoteric backroom research that nobody thought had any huge practical implication whatsoever,” says the professor at MIT’s Media Lab. Game-changing technologies in transportation may arise […]
9 min
Imagine a world where you bid on parking spaces eBay-style.
7 min
There is a greater readiness in Europe to deal with public solutions to transportation issues. Plus, there are circumstances that make it easier to do so.
5 min
Bill Mitchell envisions cars that you’ll never have to worry about filling up or plugging in.
7 min
The U.S. can learn from European bicycle sharing programs and their lack of sophisticated solutions to system balancing.
5 min
Everybody thinks automobiles need to have engines. They don’t. We need to radically change our perception of transportation.