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Report on the State of Health & Urbanism

Tuesday, December 31st, 2013
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MIT CENTER FOR ADVANCED URBANISM
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS
America is facing a health crisis that is weighing down this nation’s productivity, diminishing our quality of life, and driving up the cost of health care. The causes are complex and multifaceted. One contributing cause is thought to be a sedentary lifestyle. The way we move, or, more to the point, don’t move has coincided with an alarming increase in disease. Among our children, our nation’s future, one third suffers from obesity. We need a diet, a design diet.

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Places in the Making: How Placemaking Builds Places and Communities

Monday, October 28th, 2013
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MIT DEPARTMENT OF URBAN STUDIES AND PLANNING
Since the 1960s, placemaking has grown up. What began as a reaction against auto-centric planning and bad public spaces has expanded to include broader concerns about healthy living, social justice, community capacity-building, economic revitalization, childhood development, and a host of other issues facing residents, workers, and visitors in towns and cities large and small. Today, placemaking ranges from the grassroots, one-day tactical urbanism of Park(ing) Day to a developer’s deliberate and decades- long transformation of a Denver neighborhood around the organizing principle of art.

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The Future of Geothermal Energy

Tuesday, August 21st, 2012

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
The goal of this assessment is to provide an evaluation of geothermal energy as a major supplier of energy in the United States. An 18-member assessment panel with broad experience and expertise was formed to conduct the study beginning in September 2005. The work evaluated three major areas of Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS)

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Guest on The Infra Blog: Nicholas Santero, Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
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Nicholas Santero is a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research uses life-cycle assessment (LCA) to improve the sustainability of engineered systems. At MIT, Dr. Santero is part of a team that is working to reduce the carbon footprint of buildings and pavements using cost-effective approaches. He has a Ph.D. and M.S. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.S. from the University of California, Davis, all in Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is a licensed professional engineer in California.

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The Future of Natural Gas

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
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MIT ENERGY INITIATIVE
Natural gas has moved to the center of the current debate on energy, security and climate. This study examines the role of natural gas in a carbon-constrained world, with a time horizon out to mid-century.

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