ABSTRACT
This chapter explores an important socio-spatial phenomenon quotidian urban rhythm' in the context of urban digitisation. It explains the notion of rhythm and its deployment in the theory of social space. It describes the link between artefact and rhythm suggested in Bill Hillier's writings is developed in the context of Andr Leroi-Gourhan's contention that sociogenetic rhythms may be externalised into the artefactual environment as a whole. The chapter examines the effects of new digital technologies and their deployment in and influence on the rhythms of urban life. The particular phenomenon of urban rhythmicity may still designate many things. No longer the docile carrier of analytically anterior sociological forms, the urban artefact takes on a life of its own' and acts back on society thereby making the relationship between the two more complex than is conventionally held. A case in point is the recent introduction of so-called Location-Based Services (LBS), now available with commonplace 3G/4G mobile technologies.
