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Urban transportation has been transformed by Open Data analyses that route buses more efficiently and control traffic by rerouting cars in real time.

He conceived heterogeneity mostly as a qualitative change in social relations, which in the city become less rigid and acquire a greater gradation of norms and behaviors than in more traditional settings, where they are bounded by historical social constructs such as caste or class.7 This tends to make social interactions more fluid, “contradictory

Early delivery and ride-sharing apps hooked into Google Maps.

cities are not limited in size by their (movement) costs as long as they are sufficiently productive in their socioeconomic dynamics.

L’ensemble de la planète est aujourd’hui engagé dans un processus d’urbanisation accélérée. Entre 1950 et 2000, la population urbaine du monde, y compris dans les pays en développement, a plus que triplé, passant de 750 millions à 2,9 milliards de personnes

Krugman assumes a kind of consumer preference for manufactured goods,

as cities grow and their networks evolve, the area or volume of the networks needed to keep them functionally connected tends to become smaller on a per capita basis. For example, in larger cities more people can share the same bus or segment of road or sewer pipe.

There is a pervasive illusion that, as more of the earth’s biosphere is annihilated or irreparably damaged, human beings can magically disassociate themselves from it and transfer their interdependencies to the mecanosphere of global capitalism.

that people—or, if you like, automata, algorithms—can and do act in situations that are not well defined.