Andres Sevtsuk

Andres Sevtsuk is a Charles and Ann Spaulding Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and head of the City Design and Development Group. Andres leads the City Form Lab at MIT, where his research focuses on the influence of built environments on sustainable travel behavior and on public qualities of cities--urban ground floors, and amenity location patterns. His work contributes to making city environments more walkable, sustainable and equitable, bridging the fields of urban design, spatial analytics and mobility research. Andres is the author of the Urban Network Analysis framework and software tools, used by researchers and practitioners around the world to model pedestrian activity in cities and to study coordinated land use and transportation development in ways that reduce transportation carbon emissions. He has published numerous papers and a book entitled “Street Commerce: Creating Vibrant Urban Sidewalks” with Penn Press and before that, "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, including those in US, Indonesia, Australia, Lebanon, 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. 

His classes at MIT include 11.001 Introduction to Urban Design and Development, 11.324/11.024 Modeling Pedestrian Activity in Cities, as well as urban design workshops and studios. In 2025, he is also launching at MITx/EdX course "Introduction to Pedestrian Mobility in Cities".

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.