SOME WORK

Envisioning Seneca Village

2024 - present | multiple publications

An ongoing collaborative project to imagine New York City’s Seneca Village, a 19th-Century African American community destroyed to build Central Park.

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Project Website

You and Me Both, Bucky

2026 | essay

A brief reflection on Information Fallout: Buckminster Fuller’s World Game, in Mark Wasiuta’s The Archival Exhibition: A Decade of Research at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, 2006-2016.

Book (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City)

Population Density in 19th-Century American Urbanism

2024 | journal article

A coauthored study on population density (and its metrics) across forty US cities in 1880 and amongst different groups within those cities. Published in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers.

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Article

Mapping Historical New York: A Digital Atlas

2019 - 2024 | web-based interactive map

A coauthored interactive visualization of New York City’s census records for 1850, 1880, 1910, and 1940.

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Project Website

210 Cities in San Diego

2019 | exhibition

A cartographic exploration of distance, difference, and discrepancy. Culled from an investigation of employment statistics, including over 430,000 unique commuters, the installation illustrates the variety of boundaries that delineate individual opportunity, set against the uneven landscape of combined experience.

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Digital Urbanisms

2019 | organized conference

A one-day symposium bringing together urban researchers and practitioners—planners, architects, geographers, organizers, and entrepreneurs—to take stock of the digital processes and products shaping cities, their promises and problems, and alternatives and approaches for operating within and against the uneven spaces they characterize.

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Conference Website

Cartographies of Distance

2019 | book chapter

An essay on geographic distance as an underexamined and underutilized element of spatial and cartographic analysis, with the potential to point to differences of experience in urban environments. Published in Ways of Knowing Cities (Eds L. Kurgan and D. Brawley).

Book

Not Yet #AfterRikers: Looking for #Justice In Design

2018 | essay

A review of Justice In Design, a project and report sponsored and published by the Van Alen Institute with the Independent Commission for New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform. Published in The Avery Review n. 32.

Article

Research Ransoms: On Expelling Undue Influence

2018 | interview

A conversation with Samantha Parsons from UnKoch My Campus, published in ARPA Journal Issue 5: Conflicts of Interest.

Article

Density & Connectivity: Land Use in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York

2017 | exhibition

A four-panel installation of cartographic analysis on the relationships between populations, land use mixture and separation, and street connectivities shaping the lives of 19th-Century New Yorkers.

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Cher

2016 | web app and exhibition

A year-long collaborative project on the sharing economy, including a browser-based web app for posting and “sharing” objects and spaces by the minute and an installation at the 2016 Oslo Architectural Triennial.

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Zoning Before Zoning

2016 | journal article

A coauthored study on land use and density in mid-nineteenth-century New York, before comprehensive zoning was established in the city.

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Article

Campaign Mapping 2016

2015 - 2016 | digital project

A project about candidates and constituents in the months leading to the 2016 US presidential primaries—mapping the country we talk about when we talk about the country.

Old Maps, New Tricks: Digital Archaeology in the 19th-Century City

2015 | article

A coauthored article on learning about daily life in historical cities through redrawing their maps, published in Urban Omnibus.

Article

Remapping Snow

2013; 2015 | map series

A series of maps revisiting John Snow’s map of deaths by cholera in Soho, London, 1854.

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Re-envisioning New York’s Branch Libraries as One Networked System

2014 | design study

An interdisciplinary design study and proposal for branch libraries at multiple scales, for the Architectural League of New York and the Center for an Urban Future, with Marble Fairbanks Architects and James Lima Planning & Development.

Description
Proposal (Architectural League of New York)

Antipublic Urbanism

2014 | essay

A review of The Downtown Project in Las Vegas, Nevada, in The Avery Review n.3.

Article
Republished in The Avery Review: Chicago (2015)

The City is Not a Lab

2014 | essay

An essay on the “experimental” in architectural and urban research, for the inaugural issue of ARPA Journal on Test Subjects.

Article

Comments on Foreclosed

2013 | book and website

A record of what was said about Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream, an architecture exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, from April 2011 through August 2012.

Project Description (Buell Center)
Book

on Foreclosed

2012 | essay

An assessment of the conversation around and reactions to Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, published in Metropolis.

Article

Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream

2012 | exhibition and catalogue contributions

An exploration of new architectural possibilities for cities and suburbs in the aftermath of the 2008 foreclosure crisis at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, organized and curated by Barry Bergdoll and Reinhold Martin.

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Description (Buell Center)
Catalogue

The Buell Hypothesis: Rehousing the American Dream

2011 | co-authored book

A book (screenplay) positioning the American Dream as an all too familiar “film” which can only be sufficiently rethought by shifting the conversation toward a philosophical debate about its most entrenched underpinnings. It includes a series of case study sites that are representative of the challenges facing municipalities nationwide as well as an archive of evidence of the history of public discussion and debates about public housing since the New Deal.

Description (Buell Center)
Book

Public Housing: A New Conversation

2009 | pamphlet

A synthesis of ideas, propositions, and assertions following a one-day policy and design workshop convened by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture.

Description (Buell Center)
Pamphlet

The Infrastructural City: Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles

2008 | 23 maps

The book, edited by Kazys Varnelis, includes 23 maps which work to relate the collected essays and photo-essays, across the region’s landscape and history.

Architecture and Justice: Million Dollar Blocks

2006 - 2009 | multiple publications

A cartographic investigation of the public expenditure on incarceration in cities, at Columbia University’s Spatial Information Design Lab (now the Center for Spatial Research).

Project Descriptions from the Center for Spatial Research
Architecture and Justice
Million Dollar Blocks
Justice Reinvestment: New Orleans

New New Orleans vN.x

2007 | cartographic essay

Co-authored speculative analysis and critique of attempts at rational planning in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, published in The Question of New Orleans (Columbia University).