October | 2013 | Lidia K.C. Manzo

On October 3, Atlantic Yards developer Forest City Ratner for the second time pushed back its obligation to formally start a new railyard to store and service Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) trains in Brooklyn near the Barclays Center. The delay raises new questions about the timeline for promised affordable housing. Read more here: Brooklyn Bureau, 10/15

Looking west from Vanderbilt Avenue at the two-block-long railyard, with Carlton Avenue in the mid-range and the arena in the background. The Storage Mart building at right would be demolished before construction over the railyard, while the yellow building at left, currently on the block that features the above-ground arena parking lot, would be demolished. After building three towers around the arena, Forest City Ratner plans to build four on the parking lot block.

Maps don’t typically convey time very well. They’re static snapshots of a moment in history. They tell you what exists, not when people go there, or how the value of a place might be tied to time – whether it’s a nightlife district or a public park most popular with early-morning joggers.

An EU-funded project is building platforms to detect patterns in how people use urban spaces: which parts of a city come alive between midnight and 3 a.m.? How about at lunch time? And what might those patterns tell us about how individual places – and whole cities – are experienced differently over the course of a day?