MIT- UTM Malaysia Sustainable Cities Program

The MIT- UTM Malaysia Sustainable Cities Program (MSCP) is a five-year effort, initiated and run by faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Universiti of Teknologi of Malaysia (UTM), with generous support by the Ministry of Education Malaysia. The MSCP mission is to study and document sustainable city development efforts in Malaysia. Visiting scholars from around the world spend September through December conducting research in Malaysia. They spend February through May at MIT developing research findings into instructional materials to enhance and extend the teaching of sustainable city development across universities in the global South. Each January, graduate students and faculty at MIT and UTM partner with UTM to study, review, and refine the direction of the research in progress. The MSCP is housed in the Science Impact Collaborative in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, and the Institute Sultan Iskandar (ISI) at UTM.