Instrumental City: The View from Hudson Yards – Shannon Mattern
- Unlike Songdo, Hudson Yards is placed in the middle of an existing built environment. Would the data collected within the Hudson Yards be able to differentiate user activity between people who live or work there, and people who are just passing through? Can the data collected coincide with data collected in the city as a whole? Does this intermingling of “residents” and “outsiders” limit it’s capabilities or the information it obtains?
The Quantified Community and Neighborhood Labs: A Framework for Computational Urban Planning and Civic Technology Innovation – Constantine Kontokosta
- Quantified communities seem to be more of a bottom-up process compared to the Smart City, and seems to play a stronger role on the wants of each individual in the community. Would erecting a bunch of different quantified communities that can share data with one another, instead of a smart city, pave a more specific direction into a connected city being that our cities are already broken up into neighborhoods and districts?