“Rebooting NYC: An Urban Tech Agenda for the Next Administration” is an applied research initiative at Cornell Tech dedicated to proactively identifying challenges facing New York City that can be addressed with existing urban technologies. My primary contributions are in the chapter “Always open: Make it easier to engage with the City”.
We published the report in draft form, in the hopes of provoking productive debates and discussions among the multitude of stakeholders that make up New York City. Our hope is that these proposals serve as a guide for the next Mayor and their administration to embrace urban technologies in order to help make New York stronger, fairer, and more resilient.
Tremendous thanks to our many interviewees and the superb team who helped put this together: Rohit Agarwalla, Michael Samuelian, FAIA, AICP, Michael Bloomberg (not that one), Adrian Silver, Rebecca Lassman, Phillip David Ellison, and Benjamin Oldenburg. It was truly impressive to work with this research team’s depth of expertise and breadth of skillsets.