Through this project, we explore how western Canal Street obstructs the flow and organization of culture, goods, and people and renders the area transient, disorienting, and placeless. We argue that the design of this area's transportation infrastructure creates a geography-bending portal generating nearness between New Jersey and Brooklyn while erecting barriers between physically adjacent neighborhoods. Canal Street from the Hudson River to Avenue of the Americas.
A snapshot visualization of the 311 complaints on just four specific days in New York City, three of which are celebratory parade days. Despite parades not physically occurring in the study area of Canal Street, the influence of the day's events on complaint tolls is examined in relation to land use and value while also in comparison to a non-parade control day. Between Avenue of the Americas & Broadway.
An investigation into the counterfeit retail experience between Broadway and Baxter. Visualizing the spatial logic of counterfeit retail, this series of maps intends to both uncover and make tangible the complex relationship between vendors, potential customers, and the built environment.
Depicting points of informal information flows collected during a one-day field survey, both the static and interactive maps challenge how users-data relationships are constructed across different dimensionalities. Between Baxter and the Bowery.
The project aims to examine the conflicting spatial relations around curbside intercity buses sited around Chinatown, and extending across the Atlantic seaboard. Between the Bowery and Allen.
Depicting points of informal information flows collected during a one-day field survey, both the static and interactive maps challenge how users-data relationships are constructed across different dimensionalities. Between Baxter and the Bowery.