Quantified Community: Hudson Yards – Jiaqi

The Quantified Community and Neighborhood Labs

“As QC sensor and computing infrastructure are integrated into more neighborhoods,…” (p11-p12)

The QC is more like a test bed to gather data and also manage data for the residents or permanent neighbors, but how to apply to visitors or temporary individuals who integrate into this”city”? If there are a quantity of temporary individual, will they interfere the system or not?

  • What is “ Isolated building or system mean(p4)”? Does QC have a scale of zone/ space? Does QC is also an isolated system?

Instrumental City

“… and now intend to use their new weapon — data — to revolutionize the old urban regime.” (p17-p18)

  • To say, data would be a new weapon in the revolution of an urban regime. But when data become to a new weapon.Could we just use these data from QC to apply to the rest of this city and others?