human tidal waves
This is one of the concepts we worked on for this week. The basic idea is that the turnstiles act like gates that measure the amount of traffic, or human waves, pouring into a region. If there are more people entering, then the neighborhood expands to accommodate for the greater number of people. During the day business districts such as Tribeca and mid town expand while residential areas shrink down. At night the opposite happens. Click on the flash to see a simulation.
Imagine that people are acting like waves. As they enter turnstiles to leave an area, the land area decreases, as if the tides are rising. When they leave the turnstiles and thus enter an area, the land area increases, as if the tides are receding. I think this would be interesting if we somehow made the total land area remain constant, is if land in Manhattan is shifting from low(er) density areas to high(er) density neighborhoods.