São Paulo - Brazil
FC-01x Future Cities (1st Run) - Exercise 1 : "Making the Invisible - Visible"
Uploaded on 2014-12-05 by MarinaZampieri
1. In the Picture, we can see an important street of a São Paulo, Brazil, and several elements that configure this urban area. One of the most evident element is a massive presence of buildings, in many sizes and heights. They are organized by blocks and the interruption of the volumes shows us the location of streets. We can also see a huge number of structures that captures signals, probably of mobile phones, radio and tv. Analisyng closely, we can also note wires of electrical power, who are vital for the supply of energy for the citizens, who are shown in the picture by the light in buildings and the streets. 2. One invisible information that we can extract from this picture is the quantity of cars that circulate through this street, and the other one is the amount of energy that is used for the people who live in this area. 3. With the information of the quantity of cars that circulate in the street, the city planners could start thinking of a better management of the traffic in this area. It could be also useful to study the variation of traffic in different hours of the day. The route of this cars could be studied also to find out the reasons for this cars to use the street, for instance, if this area has attractions, or if it’s just a passage through another areas of the city. [1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14178144726013479.jpg