# PI Groups & Labs

**Source**: https://cre.mit.edu/research/pi-groups-labs/
**Parent**: https://cre.mit.edu/special-topics-courses/

## [Urban Economics Lab](https://urbaneconomics.mit.edu/home)

PI: Albert Saiz\
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 How do economic trends and activity shape cities? How does the city form and shift housing values?

## [Price Dynamics Platform](http://pricedynamicsplatform.mit.edu/)

PI: David Geltner\
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 How are digital innovations and computer science informing the models and techniques we use to understand, evaluate, and estimate real estate valuation?

## [Sustainable Urbanization Lab](https://sul.mit.edu/)

PI: Siqi Zheng\
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 How can behavioral science be leveraged to better understand planning and policies to drive more sustainable development in the most rapidly urbanizing regions of the world?

## [Real Estate Transformation Lab](https://cre.mit.edu/research/real-estate-transformation-lab/)

PI: Kairos Shen\
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 Leveraging technological advances and emergent digital tools, we provide a platform to support social, economic, and environmental transformations in the real estate industry.

## [Real Estate Innovation Lab](https://realestateinnovationlab.mit.edu/)

PI: Andrea Chegut, Dennis Frenchman, David Geltner\
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 How can we assess and measure the impact of new innovations in the fields of real estate, design, and planning to capitalize on opportunities for research and practice?