New Book Explores Visual AI and City Planning
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Scientists have a new book about towns.
- A2
MIT Senseable City Lab is a research group.
- B1
Researchers from the MIT Senseable City Lab and Peking University have published a book.
- B2
Researchers from the MIT Senseable City Lab and Peking University have published a book through Routledge.
- C1
Historically, urban planners have relied on visual observations to understand how cities function.
- C2
Historically, urban planners have relied on visual observations to understand how cities function, but the rise of digital cameras and artificial intelligence now allows them to process millions of images automatically to inform city design.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- examine
- To look at or consider a person or thing carefully and in detail in order to discover something about them.
- analyze
- To study or examine something in detail, in order to discover more about it.
- dynamics
- Forces or processes that produce change inside a group or system.
- surveillance
- The careful watching of a person or place, especially by the police or army, because of a crime that has happened or is expected.
- reinforce
- To make an idea, belief, or feeling stronger.
- bias
- The action of supporting or opposing a particular person or thing in an unfair way, because of allowing personal opinions to influence your judgment.
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by MIT News. Read the original for the full report.