We Need a Census for City Streets

Today the average American makes more data before breakfast than George Washington did over the course of his entire life. Worldwide, we’re generating over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day, most of it from interacting with digital content like email and Facebook. But cities and the people using them are physical. Our understanding of how people interact with each other offline, in public spaces, and how these public spaces then impact communities is often a mystery.

By Eric Scharnhorst

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