Myles Zhang
Urban history and built environment

Historical GIS
Visualizing urban history

Prison Design
The social history of prison

History of Technology
The technology behind buildings

The Built Environment
Selected essays
Myles studies the history and planning of cities. He has a keen interest in the urban and architectural history of the New York metropolitan region, as well as topics in urban history more broadly. He is interested in how politics, race, and culture are imprinted on the form of the built and urban environment. In some form or another, all of his work reflects Winston Churchill's observation that "we shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us."