Uploaded on 2014-10-26 by steve917

[1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14143355751525306.jpg This picture was taken on sunday 19th Oktober 2014 at the Bavelselaan, Breda, Netherlands. A street in the neighbourhood where I live. From the visible information you can tell this street is from a different era when there were only few cars or even horse carriages. With its historic road surface and old houses. From the different architectural styles you can tell the row of low housing on the right is late 19th century, the higher ones on the right are from the 1960s. On the far left is a house from the 1990s, next to a 1930s house and a house and row of late 19th century houses, then a block of 1990s. And in the center you'll see the white-brown buildings from around 1880. The further you zoom in the older it gets, there must be a historic heart nearby and this long street is a connecting road. The width of the street is set by the oldest housing blocks right and left. Living standards and lifestyles changed and it looks like they tried to update to a modern standard through the years, building bigger houses and updating the old ones. Sidewalks were once wide and spacious without cars. Mobility has changed a lot since then and the people living in this street need to park their many cars. Now the sidewalks are not for walking but mainly for parking. You can see the cars are also parked very close to the buildings. The big old trees make the street very livable but will also give problems. It looks like everythings is becoming a little to narrow. The street looks very orderly but one of the invisible things could be the issue of the problems for pedestrians. Cars are parked on the sidewalks close to the buildings. Pedestrians seem to be less important and have to walk around the parked cars and can't even walk with two. Another problem are the trees. It's autumn and the big old trees will start losing their leaves soon. When they do the leaves will block the water drains and the street will flood. Already you can't see the drains and these aren't the big leaves yet. When you collect measurement data from the sidewalks, buildings and the parked cars and behavioral data from drivers and pedestrians, you could come up with a new layout plan for parking space and sidewalks that fits within the constraints. Maybe parking bays that force drivers to park closer to the street.