Kent Larson

MIT Professor of the Practice | Director of City Science: MIT Media Lab | Co-Director: Norman Foster Institute | Founder: L3Cities & ORI Living

[City Science group @MITCities]

Mathis Bitton and Elizabeth Haas mention City Science's CityScope project in their article "How AI Can Help Tackle Collective Decision-Making."

https://t.co/ricNWskFqj

[Kent Larson @Larson_MIT]

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

[Kent Larson @Larson_MIT]

… a short video with our hopes for 2025

[Kent Larson @Larson_MIT]

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

[Kent Larson @Larson_MIT]

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. @MassGovernor @MassGov @CambMA

[Kent Larson @Larson_MIT]

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.

[Kent Larson @Larson_MIT]

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.

[Kent Larson @Larson_MIT]

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.

[Kent Larson @Larson_MIT]

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

[Kent Larson @Larson_MIT]

Read my conversation with Diari Andorra's Gerard E. Wall about the powerful collaboration between @MITCities and @Andorra_RI City Science Lab
https://t.co/vHmPYtW7Nd

[ACTINN , Clúster de la Tecnologia i la Innovació @Actinn_andorra]

✅ Avui estem al City Science Summit 2024 organizat pel nostre soci @Andorra_RI i MIT City Science.

✅ Benvinguda per part de @ArroyoVanesa i primera conferència per part de @Larson_MIT

#innovació #cityscience #andorra🇦🇩

[Kent Larson @Larson_MIT]

Finally, a huge thank you to Margaret Church who couldn't be here this year, but who we hope to have join us at the Summit next year in Biobío. We are so proud to celebrate 10 years of collaboration with a growing network of 10 labs!

[Kent Larson @Larson_MIT]

After another amazing City Science Summit, I want to thank @ArroyoVanesa and her amazing team in Andorra for hosting us & the members of the City Science network CSL Biobío, @citysciencelab Hamburg, Taipei, @MITCities, Shanghai, Israel, Gipuzkoa, Andorra, Guadalajara & Toronto.

[Kent Larson @Larson_MIT]

Many thanks to our panelists Josep Maria Missé, Gilbert Saboya, Albert Moles & Luis Alonso. Thank you to Minister Conxita Marsol Riart and Secretary Marc Saura Benazet from the government of Andorra.

[Kent Larson @Larson_MIT]

Last night, I had the opportunity to speak at ChileMass’s Innovation Day alongside Luis Alonso Pastor and Martín Andrade. @MITCities @mitcityscience https://t.co/K14NK5szBo

[Kent Larson @Larson_MIT]

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: https://t.co/4eyET83HbE

[Alex Berke @AlexandraBerke]

We crowdsourced purchase histories from thousands of https://t.co/2El0fWINYo users to publish a first-of-its-kind open dataset.
We embedded an experiment in the data collection process - this #CSCW2024 paper and blogpost summarize the experiment results: https://t.co/emtwRJCecG

[Kent Larson @Larson_MIT]

This week, @MITCities was able to demo for the attendees of @techreview's Emtech Digital 2025.

[Kent Larson @Larson_MIT]

Gastronomy and beyond ��� More than gastronomy, beyond food.

(Excerpt from Gastronomy and Beyond: The Event)

Watch the full recording: https://t.co/xhwFnVPw3L

[Kent Larson @Larson_MIT]

@Alexandraberke crowdsourced this public dataset and coauthored an article describing the data and its potential uses and benefits. As a first-of-its-kind dataset, it won an honorable mention in the MIT Prize for Open Data in 2023.
#dataset #mit #opendata

[Alex Berke @AlexandraBerke]

This was a collaboration with @MITCities @dcalacci @RobertMahari @Larson_MIT @alex_pentland @medialab

https://t.co/utqr4VbgMH

[Kent Larson @Larson_MIT]

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.”