Cities and the Future Metropolis

The world’s metropolitan regions house over 50 percent of the world population, consume about 75 percent of worldwide energy, and emit about 80 percent of greenhouse gasses. By 2050, they will house about 70 percent of all people. Princeton engineers bring together expertise in the environment, infrastructure, climate, data science, sensors, privacy, security, public policy, and many other fields to make cities, towns and suburbs resilient and enjoyable places for people to flourish sustainably.

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Related Programs

  • Chemical and Biological Engineering

  • Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • Computer Science

  • Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

  • Operations Research and Financial Engineering

News

  • Pedestrians crossing the street in New York City.

    Retro-reflectors could help future cities keep their cool

  • Dense rows of low crops growing in a field, with trees in the distance and a clear blue sky.

    Princeton IP Accelerator funding awarded to support promising new technologies

  • Hazy sunlight filtering through ranked skyscrapers

    A good way to cool a sweltering urban canyon? Put a lid on it.

  • Trees and street signs partially submerged in river water with a buildings standing in floodwater in the background.

    Climate change likely to drive more floods in some parts of the U.S., fewer in others

  • Foam board with a pinned grasshopper specimen, with wings extended, and four rows with different colors and shapes of synthetic wings under investigation for flying robots.

    Innovation funds support research in robotics, machine learning, climate resilience and more

  • Teaching Awards 2023.

    Engineering faculty recognized for excellence in teaching

Faculty

  • Sigrid Adriaenssens

    Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • Elie Bou-Zeid

    Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • Minjie Chen

    Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment

  • Luc Deike

    Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

    High Meadows Environmental Institute

  • Michael Freedman

    Computer Science

  • Maria Garlock

    Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • Branko Glišić

    Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • Jürgen Hackl

    Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • Marcus Hultmark

    Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

  • Kyle Jamieson

    Computer Science

  • Niraj Jha

    Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Yiguang Ju

    Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

  • Alain Kornhauser

    Operations Research and Financial Engineering

  • Ning Lin

    Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • Jyotirmoy Mandal

    Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • Forrest Meggers

    Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment

    Architecture

  • Reza Moini

    Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • Andrés Monroy-Hernández

    Computer Science

  • Anu Ramaswami

    Civil and Environmental Engineering

    High Meadows Environmental Institute

    Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS)

  • Naveen Verma

    Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Claire White

    Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment

  • Gerard Wysocki

    Electrical and Computer Engineering