A lovely quote from this article by Teri Rueb:

A wonderful thing happens when it snows – a lot. The spaces of the city are temporarily transformed and the humble pedestrian reigns supreme once again. The steady, silent accumulation of snow, weightless and ephemeral, stills the echoing canyons of endless traffic and tumult. A hush covers the land that waits now, like a blank slate, to be written upon by so many footfalls and improvised architectures. The cluttered visual space of the city, now unified by an expanse of white evenness, invites us to cross lines, improvise, detour and play in places forbidden or ignored in our everyday lives. We traipse across manicured lawns, walk straight down the middle of streets and invent lanes on the snow-covered freeways. For the brief period before the snowmelt we have an opportunity to rewrite the physical and social landscape of the city according to a different logic of movement and interaction.

She equates the freedom from the usual physical boundaries of the city that snow-cover encourages to the freedom Data Space or Hertzian Space can encourage from physical boundaries.

Her work in Baltimore is probably the most obvious example (though dirft may be a better clearing-like-snow example), where paths created through stories -- Hertzian Tales? -- broadcast to headphone as we walk through the city guide us through the city in new ways, encouraging us to create new paths, find new connections, and apply new contexts in our physical world.

She has inspired the name for a new wiki theme