fractured network and the vital city

In this seminar by steve read, he related the talked about the concept of "Framing lives", in our fractured network cities. The life force of the city is the active attention and movement of people. The city grows like an organism. Lives are framed by places we found ourselves( a typology of place). This framing implies our horizon. We can't have attention of everything, we can only have that of our horizon in which everything starts to make sense by creating a context, for example, a card on the table all makes sense in relation to each other. we are sense-making creatures. In framing lives, we move from one scale to another, from indoor to local to global. Scale is not just normative, scale is constructed and specified in systems of technical movement infrastructures. We are able to act more than locally because of technology. A layering of phenometechnical grids.