ABSTRACT
While technology is described as revolutionary, it is in many ways also evolutionary, gradually, through the centuries advancing from stone to steel, to silicon and, in the process, shaping human evolution and perhaps evens our DNA. The use of cellular data allowed researchers at the AT&T Research Labs to map the mobility patterns of the residents of Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco, and to compare the range and pattern of movement among these residents. Researchers such as Bettencourt and West have suggested that the growth of cities follows power laws allowing prediction of change in land cover, employment, energy flows, and a host of other factors through the evolution of a city. Social ecologists suggest that the most persistent ills of society resist the prescriptions emerging from uni-disciplinary research. As landscape architects, we must address not questions of ecology in the city but of ecology of the city.
