"The city has always been a coordination machine. Streets coordinate movement. Markets coordinate exchange. What changes with sensors and data is that the city can now feel its own coordination in real time — and begin to respond. The city becomes nervous. The city becomes intelligent."
Architect and engineer who directs MIT's Senseable City Lab, studying how digital technologies transform urban environments. His Copenhagen Wheel makes a bicycle intelligent by coordinating rider effort with terrain and traffic. His broader work instruments cities to make visible the coordination flows — traffic, energy, social interaction — that constitute urban intelligence.