ABSTRACT
Cities are as much a manifestation of systems of behaviours and overlapping sociologies as they are configurations of built forms and spatial juxtapositions. But this emphasis is often forgotten or at least becomes abstracted in the emergence of lines on the page, and consequent built fabric, that constitutes the discipline of designing the city. The detached gaze of the urban planner all too frequently omits aspects of time and the rhythms of everyday life, perhaps not surprisingly because they are difficult to pin down and draw out using conventional tools of representation. If we cannot draw the life of the city, how can we design it? The invisible realm of daily habits and routines are an integral but slippery parallel to the physical spaces and buildings that we inhabit, and are frequently marginalized from urban design as practised in local governments and corporations.
