Visible and invisible in Rotterdam
FC-01x Future Cities (1st Run) - Exercise 1 : "Making the Invisible - Visible"
Uploaded on 2014-12-07 by bruperis
[1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/1417972243811456.jpg **Visible information**: One of the main streets from Rotterdam, with brown brick housing, typically from 1940s.Trees at the sidewalks and the tram infrastructure with the green line. Separated bike paths from the sidewalk and the bike as usual transport. Light poles at the sidewalk, facing the bikepaths. Big intersection at the end, crossing of two main streets. **Invisible information**: Housing at ground floor, which means a non-commercial street, even though it is a wide and main street of the city. It shows the old highway that used to cross the city. Lightpoles , and electricity infrastructure underground. It´s normal to find suspending lighting from building to building, but the width of the street doesn´t allow that option (which it cost less money). The amount of bikes in comparison with cars, since The Netherlands it´s a really flat land and having a car it´s really expensive. The parking meter shows it´s needed to pay for car parking which increases the amount of bikes to a level that there are no proper bike racks for them, and they are at any possible spot (trees, poles...). About the tram lane, normally it is shared with the rest of vehicles but in that case, due to width of the street and no necessity of lots of car lanes, the tram infrastructure has its own green way. This invisible information can contribute to the urban planning studying the flows of different ways of transport and proposing a new street section for this old highway where bigger sidewalks are placed to accommodate proper bike paths with bigger amount of racks. This will create also a more friendly enviorment and maybe will create commercial opportunities to give more value to the area.