Tsinghua-MIT Joint Urban Design Studio is a biennial regular teaching program jointly held by Tsinghua University of China and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) of the United States. Choosing the hot and frontier issues to meet the challenge of the fast urbanization in China, faculty and students of the two universities conducted this program including field survey, site investigation, and urban design schemes.

In June 2014, Tsinghua University invited total 52 faculty and students from four famous universities to participate in the four-week “2014 Beijing Low Carbon Urban Design Joint Studio.” The studio reviewed the scientific research projects mentioned above, and chose Wucheng Community, an urban village at Xiaodian District, Taiyuan city of Shanxi Province, to study and investigate residential area redevelopment models and approach of low carbon urban design.