Tracking the Pulse of the City.

Reimagining the City SOLUTIONS THE RISE OF BIG TECH and the proliferation of digital information is often cast in dystopian terms; consumers unwittingly consent to the hoovering of reams of private data by corporate overlords, who, in turn, customize product offerings through algorithms that apparently know us better than we do ourselves. The inspiration for State of Place, an urban design data and predictive-analytics software company, was the personal experience of its founder and CEO, Mariela Alfonzo. According to Carlo Ratti, director of the lab and founding partner of the architecture firm Carlo Ratti Associati, the wealth of data produced daily is a gold mine for the future understanding of cities. [Extracted from the article]