City Rhythm Essay

When sharing rhythm, people feel more at ease with each other. Such rhythms can be mundane for example in the activities we do every day: bringing the kids to school, walking the dog, being in the same train to work, putting out the garbage and more. These mundane rhythms are at the heart of sustaining everyday life and shaping trust, for example, the local policeman who passes by the school every day so that parents can easily approach him generates trust. The opposite, not sharing rhythm while being in the same environment, can be rather unpleasant and generates distrust. That is why this study introduces the concept of rhythm for policy making. Sharing rhythm, tuning rhythm, matching rhythm, and balancing rhythms, are significant dynamics …show more content…
Each paradigm includes specific requirements regarding the effective execution of power and the design of trust. In between participation and surveillance, between being open and closed, between high trust and low trust, communities of systems and people take shape. City Rhythm aims to contribute to integrating these three paradigms of human experience for participatory, open, and high trust societies by focusing on …show more content…
New information and communication technologies have added a lot of value to new possibilities to ‘stay in touch’ and do business ‘anytime and anywhere’. Also in local contexts, online realities merge with offline presence at home and in the streets. In these new technologies people’s presence is formatted and as a result, new ways for establishing trust emerge. The YUTPA framework is developed to shed light on new trade-offs for trust that emerge in these merging realities.
The human body consists of rhythms, as nature and the universe: the rhythm of the sun and the stars, the rhythms of the seasons, the rhythm of the moon and the tide. We can feel these rhythms with our body, which is full of rhythms as well. We perceive rhythm both inside and outside