Mumtaz Hammad


Mumtaz Hammad is a trans-disciplinary scholar, audio designer, poet, and urban planner. They hold an M.S. in Urban Planning from GSAPP at Columbia University, after receiving their previous M.A. in South Asian Studies from UT Austin.

Their work engages with spatial justice, nightlife design, intercultural planning, liquid infrastructure, and how cultural spaces are located and interpellated in processes of urban planning.

Their writings have been previously published in EFNIKS, Spy Kids Review, URBAN Magazine, Cordite Magazine, and Rest for Resistance. CV may be provided upon request.

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GIS FALL 2023 FINAL PROJECT: Towards a Depoliced Nightlife


Towards A Depoliced Nightlife
Published in 2023 

These draft maps were designed, refined, and presented for my final project in the Fall 2023 Geographic Information Systems course at GSAPP. Though this project, I used digital cartographic tools to portray how nightlife in the Brooklyn borough is adversely affected by surveillance, and how our findings can lead us toward mediation instead of increased policing in nightlife spaces. The final report can be found here