leah meisterlin

Honored to Receive a 2019 Presidential Teaching Award from Columbia University at Commencement on 22 May.

Ways of Knowing Cities edited by Laura Kurgan and Dare Brawley (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2019), including a chapter “Cartographies of Distance,” is launched along with several other new titles at Columbia GSAPP on 22 Nov.

In Chicago, 21-24 Nov for SSHA: (a) Discussant for the “Emerging Methods: Historical Cartography” panel on Friday, 22 Nov; (b) Presented “Testing Wirth: Exploring Population Size and Density in the 19th-Century American City” with G Baics.

Participated in the Buell Center’s day-long event “The Green New Deal: A Public Assembly” at the Queens Museum in NYC on 17 Nov.

The exhibition 210 Cities in San Diego opens at the Lightroom Gallery, with a public lecture, at Carleton University on 4 Nov.

Digital Urbanisms: a day-long conference organized by Leah, at Columbia GSAPP on 11 Oct.

Delivering a public lecture “Tracing, Charting, Mapping, Drawing: Analytical Cartography as Historical GIS“ at New Directions and Connections in British Urban History at New York University on 13 Sep.

Fall semester starts 3 Sep. Teaching Geographic Information Systems this term.

Delivering a faculty presentation at Columbia GSAPP’s 2019 Reunion festivities (and celebrating one of my alumni reunion classes) on 1 Jun.

Teaching “Mapping for the Urban Humanities: A Summer Institute,” 28 May - 6 Jun at Columbia’s Center for Spatial Research.

Presenting and discussing during a panel discussion on “Rethinking the [NYC] Grid” at the CUNY Graduate Center, with Gergely Baics and others on 6 May.

At AAG 2019 in Washington, DC: Presenting during the panel session “Pushing the Boundaries of Regional Infrastructure: The Washington DC Region in Focus” and very excited to serve as discussant for the panel session “Urban Historical GIS” — both are on 6 Apr.

Delivering a position paper “Revisiting Analytical Cartography as Critical GIS” at Doing Critical GIS (a Univ of Maryland Baltimore County pre-AAG workshop) on 1 Apr in Baltimore.

Delivering “Cartographies of Distance and Difference” (public talk) at Columbia Global Center | Beijing on 17 Mar. (A blog post after-the-fact with a couple photos here.)

23 Feb: Another installment in the Gotham Center’s expanded series on the myths surrounding the NYC grid, with G Baics: “Myth #10: Example of Laissez-Faire Planning.”

15 Dec: Short piece on the Gotham Center for New York City History’s blog, in their series debunking myths about the NYC street grid: “Myth 9: System of Block and Lot Divisions” with G Baics.

Delivering the keynote address at Hofstra University’s celebration of Geography Awareness Week on 15 Nov. The talk: “Digital Cartographies of Everyday Life.”

Presenting “Cartographies of Access, Opportunity, and Difference” on 25 Oct at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning 58th Annual Conference in Buffalo, NY.

Also advising MS in Urban Planning theses for the 2018-9 year.

Fall classes start 4 Sep. Teaching GIS this term.

June: New essay on The Avery Review: "Not Yet #AfterRikers: Looking for #JusticeInDesign," a review of the Van Alen Institute's Justice In Design report.

Speaking at the Athena conference “The Strip Urbanism & Beyond: Las Vegas from the Inside Out” on 11 Jun at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, co-sponsored by the Center for the Future of Places and the degree program in Urbanism Studies.

24 May: New on ARPA Journal, Issue 5 Conflicts of Interest: "Research Ransoms: On Expelling Undue Influence" LM in conversation with Samantha Parsons from UnKoch My Campus.

Speaking at Unlayerings: A Critical Conversation on Historical Geography on 17 May (keynote session) and the 18th (roundtable) of May at Dartmouth College in Hanover, VT. The talk: "Cartographic Distance and the Urban Humanities."

Presenting "Distanced: Remapping Access" at the AAG conference in New Orleans, 10-14 Apr as part of a special session on Mapping Urban In/Justice.

Participating in the Impact Data Lab workshop 11-14 Mar in Amman, organized by Visualizing Impact and Studio-X Amman, where I'll serve as a mentor and advisor to the design teams.

Giving a public talk "Difference and Distance" at Turbo on 12 Mar in Amman, Jordan, organized by Studio-X Amman. [photo by Emad Zyoud]

Participating in VizTech: Converging Pedagogies and Practices at GSAPP on 16 Feb.

Speaking at the Ways of Knowing Cities symposium (talk: "Cartographies of Distance") hosted by the Center for Spatial Research at Columbia in New York on 9 Feb.

Spring 2019 semester starts 22 Jan. Teaching Advanced Spatial Analysis this term.

Spring 2019 semester starts 22 Jan. I’m also teaching Urban Datascapes this term.

Also: Teaching Advanced Spatial Analysis this term.

Spring 2018 classes start 16 Jan. Teaching the Digital Restructuring of Urban Space seminar this term.