Exercise 1 : Making invisible visible.
FC-01x Future Cities (1st Run) - Exercise 1 : "Making the Invisible - Visible"
Uploaded on 2015-05-13 by rashisharma1990
Visible things : 1. Good number of cars and other vehicles 2.Tall Buildings 3. Hawkers beside the road 4. Good number of people around. INVISIBLE THINGS : 1.Due to the angle of the picture it seems that there is a lot of traffic on the road. But actually this is not the traffic but this is the ways the cars have been parked in this area. 2.It is one the busiest roads of Kolkata , it has got offices, residential blocks, educational institutions, restaurants, bars, boutiques and little shops. 3.The street hawkers have maximum benefits in this area, as it a hub. 4.Apart from this there is a blue board hidden from the branches of the trees which says " Indian Institute of Chartered Accountants " . This is an educational institute for students pursuing CA studies. DESCRIPTION: 1. Car Parkings : There are no proper parking slots for the cars. Hence people park their cars on the roads itself on the sides of the footpaths. Sometimes there is a single line , mostly it is double as seen in the picture. This becomes pretty difficult for the moving vehicles to move around. The pedestrians are the ones who are at risks of getting hit by any moving object. There is no traffic signal and no Zebra Crossing. The footpaths are occupied by the street hawkers leaving little place to freely walk around. 2.A Place for Hawkers : In a country like India , people are settling down in the urban areas to earn their livings. These hawkers come to the city for making a good deal of business. Such areas are their target points as 80% of the co-operate employees have their meals at these streets where out of which 75% are totally dependent on them as the pace is known to be cheap and best. The three fourth of the footpaths are covered by them leaving very little place for the actual use of the footpath. Overall, the place is really economic for them as compared to renting proper shops. [1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/1431514287558692.jpg