We had Jane Jacobs who wrote “Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.”
The Death and Life of Great American Cities- and we now have...
Decoding how cities work: street level observations
"The promise of gathering the whole spectrum of information traces of
city life and managing this amount of data dominates the new utopian
views. This pursuit for a complete understanding of what happens in
cities takes the form of a seductive approach to urban design and urban
governance, and tries to take advantage of ubiquitous computing and
situated technologies. Thus, the intersection of code and space emerges
as a deterministic paradigm".
http://www.ciudadesaescalahumana.org/2013/02/decoding-how-cities-work-street-level.html?goback=.gde_2212683_member_217703217
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