Fábio Duarte

Fábio Duarte is a Lecturer in DUSP, Head of Research Initiatives in the Center for Real Estate, and Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Senseable City Lab. 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 has been a visiting professor at the Yokohama University and Twente University. Duarte 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.