How big data and new computational methods change how we investigate urban sustainability and real estate
Fábio Duarte and Siqi Zheng have been collaborating with professor Ying Long, in the School of Architecture at Tsinghua University, in Beijing. Supported by the MISTI Seed Fund, the collaboration looks into how big data and new computational methods, from social media analysis to visual artificial intelligence, has been changing how we investigate urban sustainability and real estate. Two PhD students affiliated with the Sustainable Urbanization Lab visited Tsinghua, and in June 2024 Fábio Duarte spoke at Peking University and participated in a PhD workshop at Tsinghua University, in which students from both universities plus the National University of Singapore presented their work using computational methods in urban studies to a panel of experts.
MIT Center for Real Estate’s Asia Real Estate Initiative, provides a platform for academic and professional collaboration to center sustainability in Asian real estate development, management, and investment.
