What does a human being do inside a city, does the design and appearance of technology in the urban environment, distract them from informal choices they might be making about their actions. Are they more exposed than they think they are, what role is location and technologies that map and track location playing in the environment - as per actions, will it affect who they communicate with and how, or what too.

Cityware project is researching pervasive environments and design of spaces and interactions within those spaces. They categorise three types of spaces, public, private (e.g. for providing personal information in an interaction such as an ATM) and social spaces. There are a number of projects including Radio City in Bath, which looks at network / infrastructures such as Wifi, Bluetooth, cellular; how humans are using and interacting with the city environment using their mobile devices; and they are deliberately trying to 'attack' devices in order to analyse security issues of being mobile and distributing personal information whilst on the move.

Jan Chipchase - FuturePerfect 

http://urbantapestries.net/

Adaptive City

"With a wider set of data, fed back in imaginative, multi-sensory and distributed fashion, what stories of the city might emerge and how might they affect the way the city sees itself and thus behaves? And how might citizens use this data, how might they add their own feeds, weave together their own filtered aggregations of everyday data? Could it provide a platform through which citizens learn about the city, and are then able to better build the city? If so, the city becomes shaped by side-effects. Each action produces a torrent of metadata describing that action, which can be aggregated and combined with other data in order to provide rich representations of city life. The individual informs the model, and thus development, through their behaviour. Paths through parks emerge where people walk, rather than the other way round. This is subconscious collective adaptation."

I don't know if this can happen - can technologies e.g. tags really 'tag' human movement / mobility precisely? At the moment seamless roaming does not do this in terms of how mobile phones connect to other mobile phones or devices.

http://www.urbanfreeflow.com/deep_end/parkour_freerun_for_health/index.htm

24 hr city Stop Motion Day in the Life of a Born Digital Human (link to mobilite:HCI)