Andres Sevtsuk

Andres Sevtsuk is a Charles and Ann Spaulding Career Development Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, where he also leads the City Form Lab. His work bridges city design, active mobility and spatial analytics. Andres is the author of the Urban Network Analysis toolbox, used by researchers and practitioners around the world to model pedestrian flows along city streets and to study coordinated land use and transportation development along networks. He has recently published a book entitled “Street Commerce: Creating Vibrant Urban Sidewalks” with Penn Press and "Urban Network Analysis: Tools for Modeling Walking and Biking in Cities" with Tianjin University Press. Andres has collaborated with a number of city governments, international organizations, planning practices and developers on urban designs, plans and policies in both developed and rapidly developing urban environments, most recently including those in US, Indonesia, Estonia and Singapore. He has led various international research projects, published in planning, transportation and urban design journals, and received numerous awards for his work. Before joining MIT, Andres was an Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He holds a PhD from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and an SMArchs in Architecture and Urbanism from MIT.

Research interests:

• Urban Planning, Urban Analytics, Urban Design, City Form, Computing

Education

• SMArchS Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2004 — 2006)
• BArch École d'architecture de la ville & des territoires à Marne-la-Vallée (2001 — 2003)
• BArch Estonian Academy of Arts (1999 — 2001)

Companies

• Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2019)
• Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2019)
• Principal City Form Office (2011)
• Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Design at Harvard University Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2019 — 2019)
• Assistant Professor of Urban Planning Harvard University (2015 — 2019)
• Assistant Professor, Architecture & Sustainable Design Singapore University of Technology & Design (2011 — 2015)
• Lecturer in Urban Studies & Planning MIT (2010 — 2011)
• Graduate Research Assistant MIT (2005 — 2011)
• Teaching Assistant MIT (2005 — 2010)