Google subsidiary Sidewalk Labs reveals more of its plan for a smart neighborhood in Toronto. If it succeeds, it will be remarkable: a complete privatization of a city.

“If you think of the city as a platform and design in the ability for people to change it as quickly as you and I can customize our iPhones, you make it authentic because it doesn’t just reflect a central plan,” Aggarwala says. “It also reflects the people who live and work there.”