This initiative investigates advances in the sciences, engineering, business, architecture, design, and law to ensure smart, equitable, sustainable, and healthy cities. Topics include hard and soft infrastructure; digital technologies; transportation systems; clean, sustainable, and secure energy storage and distribution; climate change resilience; efficient and reliable water systems; landscapes and ecology; urban agriculture; financial systems; and security. The complexity of these issues requires multidisciplinary efforts that address the human factors, social issues, and public policy and management, with the goal of achieving positive social impacts.
Urban Futures
Featured Urban Futures Research
Creating an Energy Saving Radiator
Peoples Gas awarded its Innovation Strategies and Technologies prize to engineering faculty members Mohammad Heidarinejad and Brent Stephens and their students for the team鈥檚 Battery-Operated Radiator Control (BORC) system.
Equalizing Flooding Infrastructure
A group of 老王论坛 researchers led by Professor Matthew Shapiro will seek policy solutions to address Chicago鈥檚 aging stormwater system, with a particular focus on disparities between the city鈥檚 North and South sides.
Going Green: An Electric Vehicle Roundtable
Government officials, industry leaders, and consumer advocates gathered on Illinois Institute of Technology鈥檚 campus to discuss the future of electric vehicles in a U.S. Department of Energy-led roundtable
$10 Million Center Tackles Transportation Safety
The Center for Assured and Resilient Navigation in Advanced Transportation Systems (CARNATIONS) at Illinois Institute of Technology was named a new Tier 1 University Transportation Center (UTC) by the United States Department of Transportation.
Chicago-Kent College of Law Professor Raff Donelson is reaching into a relatively new field of research, studying the philosophy behind modern police policy.
Assistant Professor Ryan Roark is researching how biomaterials from waste products, such as fish scales and cellulose, can be used in architecture and design.