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This Monday, after the roundtable on real-time cities, Adam Greenfield took the lead of the group with a formidable talk titled “The city is here for you to use - urban form and experience in the age of ambient informatics”.

Here are the notes I took during his talk.

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On Monday, April 14 I joined a round table on real-time cities organized by the SENSEable City Lab and Fabien Girardin. The meeting started with a presentation of our lab our latest works. Then Fabien kick started the discussion, going over the concept of real-time cities and underlining that there is a need to raise awareness of the multiple issues that are inherent of the design of real-time cities.

The ‘real-time city,’ in which system conditions can be monitored and reacted to instantaneously, has arrived.
–Anthony Townsend

Pulsing cloud of data, instantaneous information, seamlessness integration, empowerment of the citizens, enhancement of our perception, reveal the city as we experience it, patterns of behavior, observe and improve.
–Fabien Girardin

Following are my notes from the 3-hour long discussion.

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