Field note
May 2026
6 min read
What a school crossing sounds like at 8:12 a.m.
One week of sensor data from an east-London elementary school — and what it reveals about who the sidewalks were built for.
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Insights
Writing from the field, the method, and the meeting room.
Short pieces translating what we're learning into something a planner, a resident, or a journalist can use this afternoon.
Method
Apr 2026
9 min read
Counting people without surveilling them
How edge-AI lets us measure pedestrian volume without ever storing an image of a face.
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Policy brief
Mar 2026
4 min read
Why pedestrian counts belong in capital budgets
A short brief for municipal staff on translating sensor evidence into infrastructure spend.
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Field note
Feb 2026
5 min read
The corner the city forgot to count
A bus stop two kilometres from downtown turns out to be the second-busiest pedestrian site in our network.
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Conversation
Jan 2026
7 min read
A youth advisory group reviews our first dataset
Notes from a Saturday morning workshop with the residents who chose where our sensors live.
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Method
Dec 2025
11 min read
Validating a model against a clipboard
Manual counts vs. automated counts: where the model agrees, disagrees, and surprised us.
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