Judy Huynh
Empowering Change through Data
Part-time adjunct professor at NYU Wagner and data and GIS analyst at Rebuild by Design. I take government data on flood risk and disaster spending and turn it into maps and tools that people can read and use.
Urban planner, New York City
Huynh /win/ Vietnamese
Portfolio
Urban Design & City Planning Portfolio
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Rainproof NYC Flood Map
Does my block flood in places the city’s maps don’t show?
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New Jersey Underwater
What happens to a town’s schools when the homes that pay for them keep flooding?
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NYC Parks as Climate Infrastructure
If a park soaks up the rain and cools the block, why do we budget it like decoration?
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Atlas of Accountability
When disaster money arrives, whose name is on the map?
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Atlas of Disaster
Does my state have its own money set aside for the next disaster?
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Selling Flood Risk NYC
Would you still buy the house if the listing told you it floods?
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Climate Gentrification NYC
Can protecting a neighborhood from floods price out the people it was meant to protect?
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SecondChanceNYC: Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy
Who gets to decide what a neighborhood’s comeback looks like?
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Curb Forward, Upper West Side
Why is there always a delivery truck double parked on my block?
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Autonomous Vehicles at Port Authority
If cars drive themselves, what should an airport’s front door look like?
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The Flow: Mixed-Use Development Proposal for North Charleston, SC
Could the old navy base in North Charleston become somewhere people want to live?
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E 14th Street Revitalization (Post-COVID)
When 14th Street’s shops went empty after the pandemic, what would have brought people back?
GIS & Data Storytelling
12 projects, 2022 to 2026
Data tells us a lot. The people who live there tell us the rest. My work puts both on the same map.
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Manhattan Bridge, doors off
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Manhattanhenge
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Chinatown, through a fire escape
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Zurich
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Grand Central, track 29
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Long Island City at dusk
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Jersey City from above
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Bed-Stuy, marching band
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River to River
42nd Street read lot by lot from the Hudson to the East River. It shows who owns the land and…
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Numerology on a Tidbyt
The day’s two numerology numbers on a Tidbyt, a small LED display, refreshed every night by a script on GitHub.
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The Basket
Who can find out what food costs in New York before walking into a store? This maps how many food…
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Manifest Station
Press the board and it flips over to one short manifestation. This is the web prototype for a small machine…
GitHub Projects
4 builds
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12 Noise Cameras, 25 Promised, 1 Very Loud Corner
311 complaints and the city’s own noise cameras point to the same problem: late night honking where traffic queues for the Lincoln Tunnel. Here is the data, and the 13…
My thoughts on a complex world, and the systems we need to interrogate.