The image that comes to mind is a banquet, a long table piled high with food, at which the guests are equipped only with toothpicks. That's how it feels lately to read about the ongoing megamerger between urban theory and big data. Dramatic changes are happening all around us: the barriers between the tech industry and government bureaucracies, between the world of networked electronics and of brick and mortar, are crumbling. But for all the hype, there are few writers who have managed to tell more than a fraction of the story. At least, that was my conclusion after reading Nicholas de Monchaux's Local Code: 3,659 Proposals about Data, Design (&) The Nature of Cities (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016), a collection of dense essays and data-driven urban concepts, and Ingrid Burrington's Networks of New York (Melville House, 2016), a slender volume that decodes the infrastructure of the city's information networks.
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机译：我想到的是一个宴会，一张长桌高高地堆满了食物，在那儿客人们只配备了牙签。这就是最近读到的关于城市理论与大数据之间正在进行的大合并的感觉。我们周围正在发生着巨大的变化：技术行业与政府官僚机构，网络电子世界以及实体市场之间的壁垒正在崩溃。但是，尽管有如此大肆宣传，但很少有作家能讲出故事的一小部分。至少，这是我在阅读尼古拉斯·德·蒙绍（Nicholas de Monchaux）的《本地代码：3,659个关于数据，设计（和）城市的本质的提案》（普林斯顿建筑出版社，2016年），大量论文和数据驱动的城市概念以及《英格丽》之后的结论。纽约Burrington的网络（Melville House，2016年），体积纤细，可解码城市信息网络的基础设施。
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