A new generation of citizen data is being used to gather information about neighborhood-scale issues
Many urban problems are known only to the citizens who live there, and reporting is often cumbersome and ineffective.
Therefore:
Use the new digital reporting technologies to respond to neighborhood-scale challenges where they occur, without the need for individual time-consuming and expensive responses by staff.
When …In Slum Upgrade (p. 162) and Urban Regeneration (p. 168), it is especially important that citizens have access to digital technology to be able to manage their own local issues...
Then A number of the patterns in this collection were common in cities prior to the mid-20th Century – including many famous examples of growth and creativity, like 19th Century New York. During the 20th Century these older patterns were largely replaced, out of a belief that a modern, economically advanced civilization required new kinds of patterns. These patterns would be based on functional segregation and the accommodation of mechanized urbanism, and in particular, the dominance of the automobile. (See for example the famous Athens Charter of 1933.)
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