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The big moves that created our highly subsidized car culture, our federal highways and standards dictating parking minimums, and square footage requirements were imposed on already struggling municipalities and had their most devastating impacts in downtown cores. Currently we are in the midst of municipal reinvention, entrepreneurial verve and technological change. Almost every aspect of the urban experience is being changed not only through direct policy initiatives, but through software developers and a new breed of urban entrepreneur. With the advent of big data, we know when the next bus will arrive, where the closest parking spot will be found and how long it will take our informal taxi to arrive. In many instances these innovations are opposed by the entrenched interests6. New systems being developed by private corporations, hackers or innovative citizens are upending the bureaucratic processes and creating new opportunities to experience and inhabit the city.
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