An architect and engineer by training, Carlo Ratti practices in Italy and teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he directs the Senseable City Lab. Ratti has co-authored over 200 publications and holds several patents. He has been included in Esquire Magazine’s Best and Brightest list, in Blueprint Magazine’s 25 People who will Change the World of Design and in Forbes Magazine’s People you need to know in 2011. Ratti was a presenter at TED 2011 and is serving as a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council for Urban Management.
At long last it appears that the worst days of the COVID pandemic may finally be behind us. Despite early predictions of a lasting urban exodus, people are heading back. But the pandemic ...
Back in 2014, in the small alpine village of Alpbach, Austria, I found myself at a dinner with Christo, the environmental artist who died last year at the age of 84. His kind eyes glowed ...
• Changing patterns in home and office use following the pandemic are interlinked.
PARIS – La rue de Rivoli, célèbre artère qui traverse le cœur de Paris, s’est construite par à-coups. Après des années de tergiversations sur l’aménagement de la ville, Napoléon Bonaparte...
The next urban frontier may be found where we least expect it. It is the space devoted to parking cars, which are idle for 95% of the time. Taken together, these scattered fragments of re...
「アスファルトよりもシリコンを」—これは、都市モビリティの未来を見据えた重要なモットーである。交通渋滞など都市部の混雑がもたらす公害に対し、都市はデジタルツールを用いて既存の資源をより有効に活用することで、インフラの増設を避けることができる。新興国ではいま、このようなデジタル戦略が都市の持続可能性と成長を左右するものとされており、今後、気候変動などの環境対策としても欠かせ...
One of the lesser-known casualties of COVID-19 is a new, large-scale urban development in Toronto led by Google’s sibling company, Sidewalk Labs. Several years in the making, the “Google ...
El mes pasado, Jack Dorsey, Director Ejecutivo de Twitter, anunció que la compañía permitiría que sus empleados que están teletrabajando de acuerdo con los protocolos de distanciamiento s...
Last month, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that the company would allow its employees, currently working from home in accordance with social-distancing protocols, to stay there for goo...
BOSTON – Le mois dernier, le P D-G de Twitter, Jack Dorsey annonçait que son entreprise permettrait à ses employés travaillant actuellement depuis leur domicile, conformément aux protocol...
On the window of a bike shop in Copenhagen, a sign reads: Your next car is a bike.
What are the most significant trends we are seeing as city administrations prepare for the fourth industrial revolution and what can we expect in the coming years? Is all the technology i...
BOSTON – Depuis que le poète grec antique Théocrite a écrit ses idylles pastorales qui idéalisaient la vie rurale, les gens se demandent comment construire des villes qui vont de pair ave...
Ever since the ancient Greek poet Theocritus wrote his pastoral idylls romanticizing rural life, people have been pondering how to build cities that are in concert with their natural surr...
The dream of personal aerial transport appears tantalizingly within reach, as investors from Silicon Valley to Dubai vow to deliver the future of urban mobility. But rather than embracing...
