Jeffrey S. Nesbit is an architect, urbanist, and founding director of the research group Grounding Design.

His experience spanning over a decade includes leading design teams for public architecture and large-scale urban projects, along with managing sponsored design research projects for city governments, local institutions, and NGOs. Nesbit’s research focuses on processes of urbanization, infrastructure, and the evolution of "technical lands." His current research projects explore the architecture and infrastructure of planetary ports, the American rocket launch complex, and distant sites at the ends of the world. 

Nesbit has published widely in various journals and book chapters, is the author of Ground Control: A Design History of Technical Lands and NASA’s Space Complex (Routledge, 2025), and is editor of several books, including Constructing Invisibility: Infrastructure, Militarization, and the Extreme Environment (ORO, 2025), Technical Lands: A Critical Primer (Jovis, 2023), Nature of Enclosure (Actar, 2022), Rio de Janeiro: Urban Expansion and Environment (Routledge, 2019), Chasing the City: Models for Extra-Urban Investigations (Routledge, 2018), and is host and producer of three podcasts series. Nesbit has previously taught at multiple institutions, including Harvard University, Northeastern University, University of North Carolina Charlotte, University of New Mexico, and Texas Tech University.