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Shape the Future of the Built Environment with MIT's Master in Real Estate Development

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This post is brought to you by MIT Center for Real Estate The MIT Master of Science in Real Estate Development (MSRED) offers an unparalleled education in real estate practice. Candidates for the MSRED degree often come to MIT with several years of experience within the built environment.

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Boston reprioritizes Planning and Development Agency as reformers push to eliminate structural inequality

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The Boston City Council passed a measure Wednesday to shift planning authority away from the Boston Planning and Development Agency, a body that's reshaped much of the city in the 20th century and has faced criticism for the power it wields over building and urban renewal. as overwhelmingly white and male.

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Powerhouse Company Designs Largest Timber Housing Development in the Netherlands

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The timber structure seeks to be circular and sustainable in its design, creating a nature-inclusive environment that is accessible to all. Situated within Pendrecht, a post-war neighborhood in Rotterdam , it sits on the site of a residential flat bearing the same name, demolished a decade ago. Read more »

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Drexel University researchers develop AI-guided robotic structural inspection system

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The development could potentially work to benefit the enormous task of maintaining the health of structures that are increasingly being reused or restored in cities large and small across the country.

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Interspecies Design: Developing Materials That Allow the Growth and Inhabitation of Non-human Species

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It aims not only for a net-zero approach but also seeks collaboration with non-human organisms to develop environments beneficial to all. By doing so, it cultivates empathy for other life forms and shifts our perspective on the world around us. Read more »

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SGA designs concept for ‘New England’s first all-timber frame laboratory development’

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Taking an urban site in one of Boston’s leading life sciences clusters as a test case, the team believes their concept offers “the true potential for the first mass timber research development in New England.”

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Heatherwick's Azabudai Hills mixed-use development opens in Tokyo

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Image: Raquel Diniz In a press announcement, Neil Hubbard, partner and Group Leader at Heatherwick Studio, said: “Over the last 10 years, we have tried to get under the skin of what makes something distinctively Tokyo, whilst at the same time, adding something new that’s fresh and soft to its modern built environment.