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PhD
students
Anna Brand
Anna received her Bachelor of Architecture from Tulane before completing
her Master of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of New
Orleans. She practiced architecture in New Orleans before
joining Americorps, where she taught architecture and neighborhood
planning to children in public schools. Anna's research interests include
disaster recovery, urban politics, and the use and regulation of public
space. Her master's thesis, "Re-Negotiating Democracy in Public
Space," focused on regulating dissent in post 9/11 America. For her doctoral
research, she plans to focus on community development in New Orleans after
Hurricane Katrina.
Yang Chen
Yang received her B.S. from Peking
University, Beijing. After working in a landscape design
institute, she left for U. Penn, Philadelphia,
to study city planning. She received her MCP in 2006. Yang is interested in many fields but
is devoted to transportation in developing countries. She is a passionate, but not very good
tennis player.
La Tonya Green
La Tonya is a fourth year doctoral student with research
interests in neighborhood design and community development. More
specifically, her dissertation research is focused on the relationship
between schooling, incarceration, and residential location. Currently La
Tonya is a lecturer at Northeastern
University's John
D. O'Bryant African-American Institute. She holds a Bachelors of Arts
degree in Political Science and African-American Studies from the University of California,
Berkeley.
She also holds a Masters degree in City Planning and an Urban Design
Certificate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Steven T. Moga
Steven Moga studies the history of city planning and the
built environment. His research
interests include housing, community development, cultural history,
landscape, and photography. Prior
to joining DUSP, Steve worked as a VISTA
volunteer, as the community services director of a large affordable
housing complex, and as a historic preservation consultant. He has
also served on the Board of Trustees of the American Swedish Institute in
Minneapolis, Minnesota. He received a Bachelor of Arts in
Political Science from Carleton College and a Master of Arts in Urban Planning
from the University of California, Los Angeles. Steve has particular interest in the
role interpretation of the past plays in contemporary land use conflicts
and how ideas of social improvement are articulated in plans for the
built environment and landscape.
Thomas Oles
Thomas Oles Thomas Oles holds master’s degrees in East European studies
and Landscape Architecture from the University
of Washington, and studied
architecture and landscape architecture at the Royal
Danish Academy
of Fine Arts and Royal Agricultural University
in Copenhagen.
Most recently he worked in the landscape architecture offices of Martha
Schwartz in Cambridge and Ken Smith in New York, and continues to practice in the office
of Ground Public Art, Boston.
His primary research interest is in the history of landscape enclosure
and its intersection with the development of technology and urbanization
in post-Enlightenment Europe and North America.
Noah Raford
After receiving his BA in 'Sociospatial Analysis and Design' at Brown University, Noah practiced in a
variety of diverse professional environments. From transit-oriented
design in San Francisco to sustainable
pedestrian planning in Senegal,
his interest in technology for improving the human qualities of the built
environment took him to the Bartlett School of Architecture in the UK.
While there he received his MSc in Advanced Architectural Analysis and
went on to practice internationally as a consultant on strategic design
issues. Noah's research at MIT examines new ways of improving the
design process through enhanced community participation, visualization,
and impact assessment of development proposals.
Francisa Rojas
Francisca Rojas is interested in the role of
communications and information technology in urban design and
development. She holds a Master's degree in City Planning and an Urban
Design Certificate from MIT, and a B.S. in Social Science from the University of Michigan. Francisca is one of the
founders of Projections, the
MIT student journal of planning, and served as its first managing editor.
Prior to returning to DUSP, Francisca worked as a project planner for the
Anacostia Waterfront Initiative in the District of Columbia Office of
Planning, an advisor to the Chilean Minister of Housing and Urbanism, and
a program manager at the American Institute of Architects' Center for
Communities by Design.
Andres Sevtsuk
Before completing his SMArchS
Architecture and Urbanism program at MIT, Andres Sevtsuk did his
undergraduate studies in Tallinn and Paris. He has
practiced professionally as an architect in Estonia
and France
and participated in several architecture and urban design competitions
internationally. His research at MIT has focused on the effects of
mobile communication technology on city form, technologically enhanced
urban design and city design and development in developing
countries. His 2006 SMArchS thesis, titled "The Self-aware
City", explored the use of real-time information systems for
restructuring urban resource allocation.
Annis Whitlow
Annis received her BA in Architecture from Yale University
in 2001 and her MCP from MIT. She is particularly interested in the
design and use of public spaces. Her Master's Thesis focused on
parades as an expression of urban design politics, and she would like to
examine their role in community building and development in her
dissertation. Since graduating from MIT in 2004, she has worked on a
series of waterfront planning projects in Boston and other cultural planning
initiatives across the country as a consultant.
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