At Kevin Lynch's "nodes" -- parks, airports, and public gathering spaces -- wireless technology and grassroots efforts are helping create vibrant urban spaces.
"While most people were not watching, New York has become host to yet another layer of infrastructure, a random, interlinking constellation of what are called 'wireless access points.'...Bryant Park is an example of what the geographer Kevin Lynch, in his classic 1960 book "The Image of the City," called a node....Node is also a word synonymous with hot spot � a junction of Wi-Fi signals � and the electronic nodes are turning up in the same parks, airports and public gathering places that Mr. Lynch considered physical nodes... call it 'eyes on the net,' an updated version of William H. Whyte's classic idea of "eyes on the street," espoused in books like 'The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces' (1980)."
Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan
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