The sixth episode of Planning Ideas that Matter, featuring guest Albert Saiz, Director of the Urban Economics Lab and a faculty member at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Saiz explores the relationship between real estate developers and urban planners - and what the introduction of urban science, big data, and robotization will mean for that relationship and the urban ecosystem.

Planning Ideas that Matter is a podcast built upon faculty debates held in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Fall 2017 debates fall under the broad heading - Urban Science: Regression to Technocracy or Pathway to Progressive Planning?