EXERCISE 1- A commercial area.
FC-01x Future Cities (1st Run) - Exercise 1 : "Making the Invisible - Visible"
Uploaded on 2014-12-03 by AnnyAlvarezDelgadillo
[1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14175699422532572.jpg Hello, I live in Arequipa, Peru, it is an intermediate city with approximately a million inhabitants. This one is a small part of one of the commercial areas of my city, which concentrates more than 8 thousand merchants. Presenting a type of trade orientated to persons of lower-middle class, of food staples principally. **Invisible Information** 1.-The intensity of the trade has specialized the zone, excluding to the housing. The majority of merchants use this zone only to work, this wants to say that there are other zones of the city that have turned into zones bedroom (what increases the flows of trips in the city). For this motive this one is a zone with high levels of insecurity and environmental carelessness. 2.-As show in the photo, the street is used by the merchants and the consumers. The standard of behaviour to the moment to buy or consume, is defined by the preference to the use of the public space or of the private spaces near the street, for what many of the buildings with interior stands have failed in the above mentioned commercial area. **Knowledge** About the first point the specialization of the zone, the invisible knowledge that would reach is that the insecurity, deterioration and exclusion of the housing in the zone are caused largely by the type and commercial level that has specialized the zone, they are in these points in which measurements might be taken to solve, or induce solutions little by little, for example to think about new tipologĂas, or in the introduction of uses that can be more kind with the use of housing.