City Form Lab                       SUTD / MIT

Better Design through Research.

CURRENT WORKING PAPERS:


Amindarbari, R., Sevtsuk, A., 2013, "Measuring Growth and Change in Metropolitan Form" presented at the Urban Affairs Association annual conference in San Francisco. PDF

Sevtsuk, A., Ekmekci, O, Nixon, F., Amindarbari, R., 2013, "Capturing Urban Intensity" presented at the Urban Affairs Association annual conference in San Francisco. PDF

Sevtsuk, A. "Networks of the Built Environment", in D. Offenhuber and C. Ratti (Eds.),  [De]coding the city – how ‘big data’ can change urbanism. Birkhäuser / Bauwelt Fundamente, 2013 (Forthcoming).    

Sevtsuk, A. "Location or Agglomeration? A New Methodology for Studying Business Location Choices in Dense Urban Settings". In review.

Sevtsuk, A. "Analysis and Planning of Urban Networks". In K. A. Zweig (Ed.), Encyclopedia on Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer. (Forthcoming in 2012). PDF



Published Material


Sevtsuk, A., Mekonnen, M., 2012, “Urban Network Analysis Toolbox,” International Journal of Geomatics and Spatial Analysis, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. pp. 287–305. PDF

Sevtsuk, A., 2012, "Urban Network Analysis Simplified", Geospatial Today, November 2012. PDF

Sevtsuk, A., 2012, "How we shape our cities, and then they shape us", MAJA the Estonian Architectural Review, 2-2012 (72), pp. 10-15, 2012. PDF / Website

A New Toolbox for Urban Analysis" by Carolyn Y. Johnson (The Boston Globe, Business Section, October 3, 2011)

Sevtsuk A., 2010, "Path and Place: A Study of Urban Geometry and Retail Activity in Cambridge and Somerville, MA", PhD dissertation in Urban Design and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. PDF

Sevtsuk, A., (Ed.), 2011, The MIT Journal of Planning Projections 10: Designing for Growth & Change, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Website

Sevtsuk, A., Ratti, C., 2010, "Does Urban Mobility Have a Daily Routine? Learning from the Aggregate Data of Mobile Networks", Journal of Urban Technology, Volume: 17Issue: 1Pages: 41-60. PDF

Sevtsuk, A., 2008, "Explorations into Urban Mobility Patterns Using Aggregate Mobile Network Data", MIT Portugal Program Working Paper  # TSI-SOTUR-08-03, unpublished. PDF

Sevtsuk A., Huang S., Calabrese F., Ratti C., 2009, "Mapping the MIT Campus in Real Time Using WiFi", Foch, M. (Ed), Handbook of Research in Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real Time City. IGI Global. PDF

Mitchell W. J., Chin R., Sevtsuk A., (2008), "The Media Laboratory City Car: A New Approach to Sustainable Urban Mobility" in Peter Droege (Ed.), “Urban Energy Transition”, Elsevier Science. PDF

Mitchell W. J., Sevtsuk A., "Unfrozen Music: Designing & Programming Digital Water Walls." In Digital Water Pavilion at Zaragoza's Milla Digital and Expo 2008.  PDF

Sevtsuk A., 2006, "Real-time Space Management ", in "Joint Space, Open Source on Mobile Positioning and Urban Studies", Positium OU. PDF

Ratti, C., Sevtsuk, A., Huang, S., Pailer, R., 2005, Mobile Landscapes: Graz in Real Time. Paper presented at the 2005 LBS conference in Vienna, Austria. PDF

Sevtsuk, A., Ratti, C., 2007, Mobile Surveys, in Van Schaick, J. & Van der Spek. S.C. (eds.) 2007b, Pre-proceedings: International Expert Meeting Urbanism on Track: Expert Meeting on the Application in Urban Design and Planning of GPS-based and other tracking-based technologies, Delft School of Design, Faculty of Architecture, DUT. PDF