"[9] The book explores the impact of modern spatial visualization technology including GPS, democratized dissemination of data through the internet, and Google Earth on mapping physical and virtual interactions.

[14] The project used information from the criminal justice system to create maps which visualized the disproportionately large number of people jailed from a couple of specific neighborhoods in five American cities.

[19] In the catalog for the exhibition Design and the Elastic Mind, edited by curator Paola Antonelli, the urban theorist Peter Hall stated that the project, "does offer a new kind of benchmark for critical visualization.

"[20] Done in collaboration with a team from the Spatial Information Design Lab, Pen American Center and the Brown Institute for Media Innovation, this project investigated free expression online in China.

As principal investigator, Kurgan led her team of researchers in examining and visualizing the strategies that Chinese internet users employ to access and participate in aspects of the web that are typically blocked in that country.