Funded Researchers
Fabio Duarte
- Lecturer
- Principal Research Scientist
- Department of Urban Studies and Planning
- MIT Senseable City Lab and MIT Center for Real Estate
Fábio Duarte is a lecturer in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and a principal research scientist at the MIT Senseable City Lab and MIT Center for Real Estate. Duarte has a background in urban planning and a PhD in communication and technology from the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. Duarte was a professor at PUCPR (Curitiba, Brazil), and serves as a consultant in urban planning and mobility for the World Bank. His most recent books are "Urban play: make-believe, technology and space" (MIT Press, 2021) and "Unplugging the city: the urban phenomenon and its sociotechnical controversies" (Routledge, 2018). Duarte's papers have appeared in Urban Studies, Journal of Urban Technology, Scientific Reports, and Science Robotics.