From Carlo Ratti Daniel Berry's Sense of the City: Wireless and the Emergence of Real-Time Urban Systems at Sensible City Lab

From an urban perspective, the result of the wireless seems to be the emergence of more intricate patterns of dwelling in urban areas: moredecentralized systems of organization exhibiting higher levels of complexity and unpredictability. Gone is the truism of the clear-cut modernist arguments postulated by Le Corbusier in the Charte d’Athènes, which called for the partitioning of city spaces into distinct sectors, organized according to specific use...In the wake of the rationalist planning principles, ‘mixed-use’ has been the paradigm that the planning profession seems to have adopted without an afterthought over the course of the past decade. But now another type of mixing seems to be emerging in contemporary urban spaces, fueled in no small part by the profusion of new information and communication technologies : “mixed-life”, or the more intricate interweaving – some would say blurring ofthe boundaries – of living, working, and playing