Notes on future cities and their interfaces.

The city needs an interface

Cities are becoming computational, but most people still meet planning through PDFs and public meetings.

Augmented consent

Seeing a future street in place changes the conversation around participation.

More-than-human planning

If a city is shared by more than humans, who gets to speak in the planning process?

Data that never leaves the street

Privacy is not a constraint on good urban data. It is a design decision.

The city as game engine

Simulation is not the opposite of the real. It is a rehearsal for it.

The twin that thinks

The difference between a replica and a tool is whether it can be wrong.