Uploaded on 2014-10-09 by YoungPacino

[1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14128532879621664.jpg The picture above was taken in the small town of Cartama, in Southern Spain, where I'm currently staying visiting family. From the photo we can observe two specific points of invisible information present in this two. 1. Traffic and transportation. Despite being a small town with a population of 23.000 people (c. 2012), it is a town with great traffic problems. The local public transport options are very limited to a few buses a day, making cars an absolute necessity for the vast majority of residents. Though traffic can be congested especially for a town this size, the biggest problem tends to be parking. There is no parking lot in the whole town, nor parking areas or bays, resulting in cars being parked on the side of the very narrow streets, creating a great difficult for traffic and pedestrians alike, as well as creating danger of collision. 2. The density in housing is notable for a small town located in the countryside. Independent houses aren't built in or near the town, giving preference to terraced flats and houses that today feel very outdated in every sense and, perhaps ironically and due to poor planning, end up taking more space than they should. I'd like to focus on the second point of the invisible information present in the photo. With better planning and construction for housing, a town like this one could do a much better job at creating a sustainable and liveable environmental making use of its strategic countryside location, creating more open spaces for nature and, at the same time, with a better flow of roads and mapping, a less congested town could lead immediate improvements, from garbage collection to simple, everyday living of getting from point A to B without having to zig-zag between parked cars and narrow streets.