Center News
Where are the workers coming from: January – February?
Bill Wheaton | March 2019 The strong US January jobs growth figures were actually quite similar to many of the monthly reports over the last year. In fact, over the
Conservatorio and MIT Create run two-week action workshop in Panama
MIT Create and Conservatorio ran a two-week action-based workshop with MSRED/SA+P Candidates, a SPURS fellow, and an alum for IAP to develop a new commercial asset for micro and small
Bricks versus Clicks: Which Retail Channel is most efficient?
Bill Wheaton | February 2019 There is no end to questions and debate about the movement of sales from traditional stores over to the Internet. The internet seems to offer
Idea Report Published from Real Estate Innovation Lab’s Housing Innovation Workshop
The Real Estate Innovation Lab has published the Idea Report chronicling the last two years of the Housing Innovation Workshop, produced in conjunction with the City of Boston’s Housing Innovation
Four New Classes for Spring 2019
February 2019 IAP is over and spring classes begin this week. At the Center, faculty and staff have been working to create a bundle of new elective courses for MSRED,
Why does US Food Consumption resist the Internet?
Bill Wheaton | January 2019 The recent Amazon-Whole Foods merger causes me to revisit a long-standing question. In the US, the Food-grocery sector has completely resisted penetration by the internet.
Bill Wheaton Awarded 2019 Quigley Medal
ASSA Meeting January 4–6, 2019 The 2019 John M. Quigley Medal for Advancing Real Estate and Urban Economics was awarded to CRE professor Bill Wheaton. The medal recognizes the many dimensions
Success at ASSA
Allied Social Sciences Associations (ASSA) Annual Meeting 2019 Hosted By: American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association Chair: Tien Foo Sing, National University of Singapore In early January, a group of researchers from the
Prof. Siqi Zheng’s Paper Published in Nature Human Behaviour
“Social media gives a real-time measure of people’s happiness levels and also provides a huge amount of data, across a lot of different cities,” – Siqi Zheng MIT Center
Why firms choose “Edge Cities”: Arlington and Queens
Bill Wheaton | December 2018 US cities have clearly become “polycentric” with older CBDs now co-existing with numerous suburban “edge cities”. The spatial competition between all these subcenters, for the