Crowd Pulse Mapping in Taipei

Ximending moves on muscle memory. Locals time their routes like clockwork — 11:48 lunch break surge, 17:16 school spill, 03:12 dead quiet. Scooters veer the same corners. Crosswalks fill like pulses from a heartbeat. Any shift in tempo is a ripple.

I watched six days from a rooftop noodle stall. No camera. Just eyes and memory. One man looped the same block four times. No phone, no urgency. Another paused beside a vending machine but never bought. Surveillance doesn’t always look high-tech. Sometimes it just looks… still.

Urban movement is the oldest signal network on the planet. Want to know who doesn’t belong? Log the rhythm. Then catch who misses the beat.

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