Air traffic controller at Teterboro Airport, New Jersey

Inscriptions: Verso: [stamped] Photograph by Freda Leinwand. [463 West Street, Studio 229G, New York, NY 10014].

Air traffic controller at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey

Inscriptions: Verso: [stamped] Photograph by Freda Leinwand. [463 West Street, Studio 229G, New York, NY 10014].

Impact of Rapid Transit on the Residential Market in Hudson County, New Jersey

The New York Metropolitan region is one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world, and the single largest in North America.[1] It is also one of the most prominent economic centers, with New York City at the epicenter of its growth. With the entire region growing rapidly over the last decade, it is essential to analyze the socio-economic changes in order to understand the impact it has on commercial real estate. With its focus on housing rentals, this study aims to highlight housing costs as a function of rapid transit over time.

Map of New Jersey and Pennsylvania exhibiting the post offices, post roads, canals, rail roads, &c.

Scale ca. 1:650,000.

Hydrologic unit map--1974, State of New Jersey.

Scale 1:500,000; 1 in. equals approx. 8 miles.

State of New Jersey /

Scale 1:500,000; 1 in. equals approx. 8 miles.

State of New Jersey /

Scale 1:500,000; 1 in. equals approx. 8 miles.

New Jersey.

Scale 1:500,000; 1 cm. equals 5 kilometers.

Water resources investigations in New Jersey, 1972.

Scales vary.

Water-resources investigations in New Jersey, 1977 /

Panel title.

New Jersey; county subdivisions, townships and places. 1970.

Scale ca. 1:250,000.

New Jersey /

"Sources: Base map from U.S. Geological Survey, New Jersey, 1974. County, county subdivision, and place boundaries certified by local officials, January 1, 1980."

The New Jersey Meadowlands: Inhabiting an Urban Wilderness

The New Jersey Meadowlands is a thirty square mile industrial wetland between New York City and the commercial district of East Rutherford, NJ. The place is both strange and fascinating; many mysteries are hidden between the reed grasses and scattered garbage. Often exposed to subjectivity, the Meadowlands is commonly perceived as a weird, polluted, industrial, and even an other-worldly space; few know its beauty. These differing perceptions create a challenge when thinking of a cohesive identity and sense of place in the marsh. Over time, the once pure landscape has suffered from infrastructural slices, illegal dumping, and environmental abuse, resulting in fragmented land areas along the Hackensack River’s edge. This thesis explores how to inhabit an ecologically devalued and residual landscape through ideas of place-making and re-connecting communities. Investigating the paradox of this massive urban landscape and capitalizing on the ecological and educational potential of the site, lends also to a challenge of converging modern and forgotten life. Designing a place-based ecological research community within this currently placeless environment, will engage the public, re-connect lost communities, and bring a sense of renewal to the marsh.