Is it found art or urban planning? The SENSEable City Lab at MIT created the Real Time Rome project for the architecture section of the 2006 Venice Bienniale, an art and design show. Data from cell phones, buses and taxis in Rome are aggregated in real time and visualized to show patterns of activity in the city.

These real-time maps show how neighborhoods are used at different times of day, how goods and services are distributed and how different social groups inhabit the city. The creators hope that revealing the pulse of the city will give people more control over their environment and "open the way to a more sustainable urban future."

In the image above, the yellow lines show buses and the red corresponds to density of people.