CDSpec NYC
Course project for the Fall 2025 Urban Systems course, a core component of the Urban Tech Master's program at Cornell Tech.
Project Blog Post (coming soon!)CDSpec is a student-led project in Cornell Tech's Urban Systems class. Students selected and 'adopted' a NYC community district for the entire semester and undertook analyses that propose solutions to pressing local issues they discovered in their research. For the project, students analyzed, characterized, and mapped hard systems, soft systems, and their interactions in these neighborhoods to discover hidden patterns in these critical local urban systems.
Course Instructor, Michael Samuelian, Director, Urban Technology Hub
Course Teaching Assistant, Matt Franchi, CS PhD Candidate
Orange areas on the map below represent community districts with a completed CDSpec StoryMap. Click on any such district to view the corresponding analysis.