May
25
“The networks of a city — the paths, roads, telecommunications, etc. — are the mechanisms that support information exchange. Nevertheless, a city processes information rather than merely moving it around. A complex pattern of information exchange coordinates city functions, drives a city’s dynamics, and determines its evolving structure [5]. Information exchange at the smallest level of scale includes conversation, observation, and display by individuals. At a higher level, people or groups of people move from one function to another. Goods are moved, consumed, changed, combined, and created in a city. Exchanging information is much cheaper than moving people and goods, so a city has to efficiently coordinate different exchanges of different cost.”
“The Information Architecture of Cities”, by L. Andrew Coward and Nikos A. Salingaros
This is the point i tried to make when I was talking about Metrocurators.
