The Sustainable City of Sensors
Meeting with a friend from Arup last night we discussed how there is still a large separation between the aspirations of a sustainable society and the quality of data available to achieve our goals. Below is a link to a noise monitoring project which is being used to affect the design of the urban realm.
Much modern city planning has forgotten the lessons of history where the street patterns were designed as part of a holistic environmental strategy. Street widths and orientations were designed to create the necessary positive and negative pressure to shade and draw cooling and ventilating air through the streets. Hopefully a 'City of Sensors' will enable us to regain this lost knowledge and generate masterplans once again based on sustainable principles.
