Urban Street in Egypt
FC-01x Future Cities (1st Run) - Exercise 1 : "Making the Invisible - Visible"
Uploaded on 2014-10-29 by karimelnabawy
![Urban Street in Alexandria][2] 1) Photo taken in a normal Street in Alexandria, Egypt, An area full of historical buildings with stringent guidelines to the building codes, dates back to more than 100 hundred years, all the buildings are at the same height, architectural wise, we have some modifications to the buildings that are not related to heritage, we have also a strange intersection between people and vehicles in the street, as the absence of any traffic signals and any ground signs leads to some chaos. 2) The invisible information in this pictures can lead to a disaster, as we have the flow of cars and other vehicles that has no rules specially when you don't have any traffic signals in an intersected street, and if you just hold on for a minutes you will notice a huge breach of driving rules from the drivers, while the other important invisible data is the flow of the people, the pedestrian flow is intersecting in a strange way with the movement of vehicle that creates an intersected lines in the middle and nearly everywhere. 3) The gathered data of flow, from the pedestrian and vehicle can give us a great understanding of the problem, as we will know exactly where the intersection happens between both people and cars, while also the flow will help us to add certain signs to organize the movement and the flow. [1]: http://www.mediafire.com/view/5053pdh6n36etko/091220122101.jpg [2]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/1414548337857636.jpg