Within its square mile or so, the Zona now packs in 16 gay bars and nightclubs (two more clubs lie just north of the Cuale River, downtown) and 12 gay or gay-friendly hotels and guest houses.
Her second picture, charcoal on red paper, fit two nude models holding each other side by side within its square frame, like a smartphoned American Gothic, but with softer stomachs and groomed pubic hair.
But within its 320 square meters, or nearly 3,500 square feet, Mrs. Rooney Duval saw the architectural equivalent of a carte blanche in a city filled with traditional Haussmann residences and what she calls their "flat" interiors.
It will feature almost an acre of column-free gallery space and a lecture hall for up to 200 people within its 120,000 square feet, and it will be wrapped with what the architects describe as a porous honeycomb "veil," visible through a top-floor, sky-lit gallery.
(The building will also include a bakery, studio space, a wellness center and a planetarium within its 30,000 square feet).
To be sure, Asbury Park, with 16,799 residents within its 1.5 square miles, has been cursed with political instability -- to put it gently.
Up close, Mr. Gibbs's compact drawings on graph paper appear to be nothing but fields of neatly made little circles, each inscribed within its own square.
One Gateway, built in 1971 as the first of four in the Gateway Center complex on Raymond Boulevard, now houses a number of government, legal and other types of offices within its 491,864 square feet.
What Pelham does not offer directly within its 2.45 square miles is available nearby, Mr. McLaughlin said, noting that for him, there is plenty of shoreline to be enjoyed to the east in New Rochelle.
For all its problems of poverty and restricted movement, the Gaza Strip is a place that prides itself on education: illiteracy among its youth was less than 1 percent in 2010, according to the World Bank, and there are five universities within its 139 square miles.
The island is sparsely populated; only 2,989 people lived within its 140 square miles in 1995, the most recent data available.
