Projects

Projects

A painted polling station: five voting booths from red to blue, each with a queue of blue voters, and a fox at the check-in table

Pendulum politics

The 2026 midterms swung on politics, not prices.

Built-up land around a city in 2018, painted in rust and green

Elbow room

Growing cities don't all spread outward.

Smokestacks and shoppers

India's consumers grew outside its factories.

A painted fox sat in a drive-through lane at dusk in Tokyo, looking up at a paper bag on the window shelf

The McDistance

Richer places sit closer to a McDonald's.

Map of New York with subway trains as coloured dots on their lines

At 8:43 am on a weekday morning, 537 subway trains are running at once

New York's busiest minute is 8:43 am.

A painted fox on a ledge at dusk, looking over a valley of small houses with lit windows

Light counts people only in the dark

Bright cities hide their growth.

In progress

Does AI speak the languages of the new middle class?

An original test of AI models in the first languages of the people joining the consumer class.