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This reconstruction is based on original plans and primary sources about the jail's architecture. It uses film to reveal how the building's envelope was expanded and modified each decade in response to evolving design philosophies, public attitudes towards incarceration, and the ever-expanding size of today's carceral state. 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An investigative report on public funds for private profit. “Free enterprise is a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention in the economy to maintain a welfare state for the rich.” – Noam Chomsky Contents [1] Who owns the land around Mulberry Commons? [2] If past predicts future, what kind of past tax breaks have we given? [3] The problem is not tax breaks. The problem is: Who gets them? [4] How can we... 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By 1958, they had sung their heart out and their song, \u201cWho Wrote the Book of Love?\u201d hit the country and even spread as far as Europe and Australia. \u201cOh, I wonder, wonder ohm ba doo who\u2026.. who wrote... 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The essay analyzes St. Paul's Cathedral, highlighting its architectural significance through the lens of Eug\u00e8ne-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc's thesis-antithesis-synthesis framework. St. Paul's is a blend of advanced engineering and artistic expression reflective of Enlightenment thought, showcasing innovation in design and construction while mirroring cultural shifts in London at the time. 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I present a computer model of the panopticon, built according to Bentham’s instructions. I then identify design problems with the panopticon and with the symbolism people often give it. 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Based on exceptionally detailed and accurate-to-the-inch measurements given in Bentham's 18th-century letters and drawings, this project reconstructs his panopticon in virtual reality. Despite his claims of total oversight, design flaws undermine effective surveillance. 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The abandoned old Essex County Jail in Newark was built in 1837 and is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This project transformed revitalization proposals by Columbia University's historic preservation students into an exhibit and website. 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The story surrounding the twelfth-century construction of Saint-Denis near Paris c.1140 reveals a tendency to tell history \u2013 particularly architectural history \u2013 in terms of individual structures when, in fact, the origins of the Gothic style are more complex. Abandoning a Paris- and Saint-Denis-centric origins story reveals the range of local sources from which medieval masons drew inspiration to create the Gothic architectural style. 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The New York Police Department (NYPD) made 102,992 arrests in 2017 for the possession, sale, and\/or use of marijuana. While only 25.5% of New Yorkers are Black, 67.5% of marijuana arrests are of Blacks. Similarly, 90% marijuana arrests are male, even though only 65% marijuana users are male. Males more than females and Blacks more than others are arrested for marijuana in disproportionate numbers. Race Percentage of New Yorkers who identify as this race Percentage of marijuana arrests of individuals belonging to this race White 44.0% 11.2% Black 25.5% 67.5%... 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The data analysis of NYC landmarks from 1965 to 2019 shows evolving trends in historic preservation, highlighting economic disparities and biases favoring wealthier neighborhoods. The study indicates a higher concentration of preserved sites pre-1945, challenging the preservation movement's effectiveness against gentrification and questioning its responsiveness to modern architectural significance. 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Mulberry Bend, nestled between the New York County Criminal Court and the tenements of Chinatown, is at the geographic crossroads of New York City history. At 500 feet long and 50 feet wide, Mulberry Bend is between Bayard Street to the north and Worth Street to the south. Named after the slight turn the street makes midblock, the Bend has a rich, over 350... 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Dot size indicates the number of objects from this place. The time each dot appears corresponds to the year this work was created. This data is assumed to be an accurate sample size. Over the past few years, the Metropolitan Museum has catalogued over 25% of its holdings online. This represents ~590,000 objects, covering over 5,000 years... 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The other half is the campus of Saint Catherine’s College in Oxford. Attaining precision in a small model is difficult and took about two weeks to build. It is made from paper cutouts, which were folded into various shapes. Below are two of the cutouts before assembly. Dimensions: 7 by 14 inches and... 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Click on individual, color-coded lots to view information on the property owner and acreage. Interactive map of Newark’s blight of parking Destruction of the James Street Commons: 1975-2020 This map (accurate as of April 2021) illustrates buildings demolished in one Newark neighborhood, the James Street Commons. When historians first considered this neighborhood for landmark status in... 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The portfolio features a detailed ink and watercolor campus drawing, a mini model of the campus made from paper, and six time-lapse sequences documenting artistic processes. Featured in multiple publications, these creations are now a personal souvenir of my education at Columbia.\n\nContact me to download source files or to order custom prints mailed to your home address. 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City officials, however, proposed rezoning a large section of the area\u00a0 to permit structures up to eighteen story structures \u2013 four times taller than any other structure in the immediate area. Motivated by profit, the J&L Parking Corporation lobbied the city to increase the maximum allowed... 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As Newark develops from a small town to a bustling and industrial metropolis, the sounds shift from quiet woodlands to the din of the vibrant city with rising skyscrapers. This two minute time-lapse aims to represent history as a living and fluid process. 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This panoramic map depicts Chinatown's urban core, as bounded by Bowery, Canal Street, and Columbus Park.\n\nDrawing is shared online in lower resolution. Email me for the full-size file. Custom size prints will be mailed to your home address on request. 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The resulting interactive map presents 150 comparative views, which illustrate the progressive loss of human-scale small structures that were central to the city's now vanished identity and neighborhoods. VIEW PUBLICATION<\/a>","date":"2016-07-27 18:58:15","postID":3936,"customfields":{"postID":3936,"fields":[]}}},{"markerdatas":"{\"latitude\":\"40.7044\",\"longitude\":\"-73.99242\",\"markerdata\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/myleszhang.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/02\\\/horse.png\",50,50],\"multiplemarkers\":false,\"customtitle\":\"\",\"customexcerpt\":\"\",\"customthumbnail\":\"\",\"customanchor\":\"\"}","postdatas":{"thumb":"https:\/\/myleszhang.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ba032-janes-carousel-4-2bdqno9.jpg","url":"https:\/\/myleszhang.org\/2016\/07\/15\/janes-carousel\/","thetitle":"Model of Jane’s Carousel in Brooklyn","excerpt":"A wind-up music box featuring Jane’s Carousel along the Brooklyn Waterfront. When closed, the antique cigar box measures a mere 7 by 7 inches and 3 inches deep. When opened, the Brooklyn Bridge and historic Jane’s Carousel fold out. The carousel spins to the tune of the music while the moon slides across the night sky. 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The portfolio is divided into ten \"walks\" over the chapter structure of ten \"days.\" Each \"day\" features some of my artwork about a different neighborhood of Manhattan: Chinatown, SoHo, East Village, West Village, the High Line, Madison Square, Midtown, Central Park, Riverside Drive, Morningside Heights, Harlem, and Washington Heights. 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It is a monument to industry, built to last (and landmarked since 1979 by the National Park Service). Recent renovation efforts promise to turn this derelict structure into a community of apartments. The summer after my first year at Columbia University, I had the privilege of working with the Studio... 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As a wall crumbles to the ground, a tree, anchored to the wall, reaches for the sky. While my city\u2019s industrial past succumbs to demolition, new buildings grow from old lots. Behind this slow decay, there is... VIEW PUBLICATION<\/a>","date":"2016-04-01 23:25:19","postID":293,"customfields":{"postID":293,"fields":[]}}},{"markerdatas":"{\"latitude\":\"40.75412\",\"longitude\":\"-74.16454\",\"markerdata\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/myleszhang.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/02\\\/art.png\",50,50],\"multiplemarkers\":false,\"customtitle\":\"\",\"customexcerpt\":\"\",\"customthumbnail\":\"\",\"customanchor\":\"\"}","postdatas":{"thumb":"https:\/\/myleszhang.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/08df8-slider-vanishing-city-220zd86.jpg","url":"https:\/\/myleszhang.org\/2016\/01\/12\/pictures-of-newark\/","thetitle":"Pictures of Newark","excerpt":". As a lifelong citizen of Newark, I spent much of the past few years painting and photographing my changing city. Pictures features a selection of my work, complemented by classical music. Five of Modest Mussorgsky\u2019s pieces from his composition Pictures at an Exhibition are selected, each of which represents the feel of a certain part of Newark. The following five locations are featured: 1. THE PASSAIC RIVER \u2013 music: Mussorgsky’s Promenade 2. OLD ESSEX COUNTY JAIL \u2013 music: With the Dead in the Language of Death 3. MOUNT PLEASANT CEMETERY \u2013 music: Promenade 4. DOWNTOWN NEWARK \u2013 music: Mozart\u2019s... 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Cars may speed by on the nearby interstate and the surrounding neighborhood may shrink or grow, but this city of the dead moves at a slower pace. The cemetery stones crumble and weather with rain, its trees grow larger, and its grass taller. Names carved in stone are just as susceptible... 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My Renaissance City photo and art series depicts the Newark of my childhood with garish signage and decayed structures blanketing my city\u2019s architecture in a medley of color and consumerism. Click here to see a film featuring more of my Newark-based artwork. Urban decay in Newark to the tune... 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[…] Out of a ruin a new symbol emerges, and a landscape finds form and comes alive. – John Brinckerhoff Jackson, A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time (1994) In the past 60 years, my home city of Newark, NJ has lost 40% of its population and nearly 50% of its buildings. The timely and needed development of... VIEW PUBLICATION<\/a>","date":"2015-11-24 15:41:24","postID":3513,"customfields":{"postID":3513,"fields":[]}}},{"markerdatas":"{\"latitude\":\"41.89019\",\"longitude\":\"12.49231\",\"markerdata\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/myleszhang.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/02\\\/architecture.png\",50,50],\"multiplemarkers\":false,\"customtitle\":\"\",\"customexcerpt\":\"\",\"customthumbnail\":\"\",\"customanchor\":\"\"}","postdatas":{"thumb":"https:\/\/myleszhang.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2fc32-roma-2fzqbcn.jpg","url":"https:\/\/myleszhang.org\/2015\/09\/08\/rome\/","thetitle":"Rome: The Eternal City","excerpt":"Rome, the Eternal City, the city of a thousand jeweled churches. Each church a treasure trove of glistening gold and baroque drapery cascading over its roof and walls. Each street a channel to and from some unexpected street side treasure: A Roman coffin turned public fountain, a marble column turned city wall, or a dark alley where the sound of water drips eternally. Rome is the city of reinvention with each subsequent structure built on the physical and symbolic history of Greece, Rome, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the modern era. Physicist Isaac Newton once proclaimed that: “If I... 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Each building is made from a single piece of paper that is colored with ink, painted, cut-out, folded, and then glued together. The trees are made from telephone wire bundled and twisted together to resemble branches. The proposed addition (in white unpainted paper) slides in and out of the... 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Dusty and decrepit Jewish textile stores struggle onward; their elderly owners wait to close up shop and sell out for millions to developers. By Division Street rests a former synagogue with an AT&T outlet on one side and a Chinese-language job agency on the other. Bustling bakeries and bodegas abut reminders of past immigration.... 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On weekdays, hundreds of cargo ships deliver thousands of Chinese-made products to waiting trucks and trains. On weekends, the port is empty of life, an unintentional and empty urban monument to America’s economic might. Click here to see a film featuring more of my Newark-based artwork.... VIEW PUBLICATION<\/a>","date":"2014-11-02 18:16:12","postID":2293,"customfields":{"postID":2293,"fields":[]}}},{"markerdatas":"{\"latitude\":\"40.86605\",\"longitude\":\"-73.8943\",\"markerdata\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/myleszhang.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/02\\\/cities.png\",50,50],\"multiplemarkers\":false,\"customtitle\":\"\",\"customexcerpt\":\"\",\"customthumbnail\":\"\",\"customanchor\":\"\"}","postdatas":{"thumb":"https:\/\/myleszhang.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/166f8-bronx-19-1p2wsxn.jpg","url":"https:\/\/myleszhang.org\/2014\/10\/16\/bronx\/","thetitle":"South Bronx","excerpt":"View more artwork like this about my experiences walking in New York City. Strolling in the Bronx, I am arrested by the inner-city grid that stretches mile after mile. Block after block, street after street, a never ending treadmill of bodegas, tenements, hair salons, C-TOWN supermarkets, strip malls, and laundries. In the treadmill of the city grid, I become an explorer lost wandering. I retrace my footsteps. And then, there is the ceaseless cacophony of Spanish speakers, buses, and car. The chaotic maze of streets leads me to fantasize walking through one of M.C. Escher’s drawings of a geometric maze.... 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After Detroit’s July 1967 civil unrest, over 200,000 whites fled Detroit in fewer than five years. Now over 50,000 homes lie vacant and decaying. During WWII, Detroit was dubbed “the arsenal of democracy” for all the military equipment that rolled out of its auto factories. Planes from Detroit went on... 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The unwanted detritus of civilization is cast off into the Meadowlands, ranging from garbage piles to noxious-smelling industries. Millions of commuters to and from the suburbs to New York City pass through this region of indeterminate identity. Many look out the windows of passing trains, planes, and cars. Yet few care to observe the lapping tides and bizarre... 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This trend will continue, as it does in most cities where old buildings outlive their use. If not in the form of my city’s physical destruction, this loss is in the form of my gradual loss of childhood memories. To reconcile this, I built the below model as my own souvenir. This keepsake will... 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It contains several dozen of the city’s landmarks, skyscrapers, people, lampposts, subway stations, and a bevy of operating subway cars. Whenever I glance at my tiny creation, I rejoice in knowing that my love of New York is within the breadth of my arms. Animation of New York City... VIEW PUBLICATION<\/a>","date":"2014-06-01 19:49:10","postID":1264,"customfields":{"postID":1264,"fields":[]}}},{"markerdatas":"{\"latitude\":\"40.74455\",\"longitude\":\"-74.18226\",\"markerdata\":\"default\",\"multiplemarkers\":false,\"customtitle\":\"\",\"customexcerpt\":\"\",\"customthumbnail\":\"\",\"customanchor\":\"\"}","postdatas":{"thumb":"https:\/\/myleszhang.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1a903-essex-county-jail-watercolor-19y26up.jpg","url":"https:\/\/myleszhang.org\/2014\/04\/17\/county-jail\/","thetitle":"The Old Essex County Jail","excerpt":"The old Essex Country Jail sits forlorn and abandoned amidst desolate parking lots and lifeless prefab boxes. In the so-called University Heights neighborhood, the jail is testimony to the past. Listed on the National Register of Historical Places, this 1837 structure is one of the oldest jails in America and the oldest civic structure in the city. Abandoned for over fifty years, no successful preservation efforts have materialized. The urban jungle of junk trees, vines, and garbage conquers the old fortress. The warden’s garden that zealous prisoners once pruned and weeded is now overrun with nature. Used syringes line the... VIEW PUBLICATION<\/a>","date":"2014-04-17 22:28:04","postID":907,"customfields":{"postID":907,"fields":[]}}},{"markerdatas":"{\"latitude\":\"40.75174\",\"longitude\":\"14.49056\",\"markerdata\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/myleszhang.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/02\\\/columns.png\",50,50],\"multiplemarkers\":false,\"customtitle\":\"\",\"customexcerpt\":\"\",\"customthumbnail\":\"\",\"customanchor\":\"\"}","postdatas":{"thumb":"https:\/\/myleszhang.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1e1ba-ancient-rome-nz5ine.jpg","url":"https:\/\/myleszhang.org\/2014\/03\/23\/vitruvius\/","thetitle":"The Legacy of Vitruvius","excerpt":"Rome left a footprint on the built environment.What will our society leave? Essay selected from successful 2014 application to the Telluride Association Summer Program Visitors to the ruins of vanished Greece, Carthage, and Rome do not see whole structures, so much as shards of memory and the detritus of a lost civilization. Ruins’ emotive power comes less from seeing them intact and more from imagining them as they once were. There is something powerful about “the lost cause.” The imagery of loss draws viewers in to imagine a civilization that was or still could be if history had gone differently.... 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It was the pristine wooded river our city’s founding fathers first saw in 1666. It was our city’s artery to the sea and our industries’ source of wealth. It was the throbbing, flowing heart of our city. After the automobile drove people to the suburbs and globalization exported jobs abroad, the Passaic was no longer a water highway. It is now this industrial town’s polluted heart. The corporate towers of Newark\u2019s “Renaissance” meet industrial history at the riverbank. The murky waters contain secrets... 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I will grow.” \u00a0Manhattan from Hoboken Misty Manhattan Morning Madison Square Park George Washington Bridge from Riverside State Park George Washington Bridge from Riverside State Park Manhattan from Brooklyn Heights VIEW PUBLICATION<\/a>","date":"2014-03-01 23:15:21","postID":290,"customfields":{"postID":290,"fields":[]}}},{"markerdatas":"{\"latitude\":\"40.80356\",\"longitude\":\"-73.96136\",\"markerdata\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/myleszhang.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/02\\\/church.png\",50,50],\"multiplemarkers\":false,\"customtitle\":\"\",\"customexcerpt\":\"\",\"customthumbnail\":\"\",\"customanchor\":\"\"}","postdatas":{"thumb":"https:\/\/myleszhang.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0adca-st.-john-the-divine-12-1ci0bv6.jpg","url":"https:\/\/myleszhang.org\/2014\/02\/24\/cathedral\/","thetitle":"Cathedral of Saint John the Divine","excerpt":"View more artwork like this about my experiences walking in New York City. Also featured in the Columbia Daily Spectator in September 2016 The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine soars above the low-slung tenements and boxy towers that edge up against it. Unfinished it survives; funds have long since dried up in our era of secularism and consumerism. Yet powerful it stands; solid stone will outlive the concrete and glass city. The cathedral’s soaring jagged silhouette seems to proclaim against the soot that darkens its fa\u00e7ade and the urban din that drowns out the sanctity of silence: Come weather,... VIEW PUBLICATION<\/a>","date":"2014-02-24 12:36:15","postID":221,"customfields":{"postID":221,"fields":[]}}}]

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