Whatever Dan Doctoroff says or does is reliably backwards: if he’s for it you should be agin it (the NYC Olympic bid, Bloomberg for mayor, Sidewalk Labs), and if he’s agin it you should be for it. In this chapter, he argues that the best thing to happen to NYC’s streetscape in decades — organic, inventive, varied, as hoc — should be knocked down and replaced by three kind of stuff he likes: a surveillance-capitalist nightmare of standardized, privately administered “utopian” smart-schlock.