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Sidewalk Labs Wants to Remake Toronto With Flexible Streets | WIRED

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Google's sister company intends to rethink how cities work, and that means adding some flexibility to how their public spaces are designed.

Save this story Save this story The hexagonal slices of wood don’t look like much. There’s the shape, sort of interesting in its architectural way, and the neutral wood color. A few are studded with bright, white lights, right in the center, which is fun. And the way the hexagons, each the size of a manhole cover, have been bunched into clusters feels natural and sensible. Surely a Fibonacci sequence is hiding somewhere in there. What’s important about these shapes is what they represent to Sidewalk Labs, a sister company to Google , Waymo , and Loon . It's how the company envisions the street

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