Making the invisible - visible, Paris - La Défense
FC-01x Future Cities (1st Run) - Exercise 1 : "Making the Invisible - Visible"
Uploaded on 2015-05-17 by jrqdl
[1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14318730112954236.jpg Visible Information: La Défense - Paris Basically a business district. Skyscrapers with offices in the whole district. One shopping centre on the left and one on the right. A huge square in the middle. There is a lot of lightning used during night. At least no people around in the area late at night. Invisible Information: The travel behavior can be transferred from the picture. Due to the shopping centers and the office areas there has to be a lot of traveling towards the area during the day. Anyway at night like seen in the picture there are almost no people. Therefore the travel behavior is different at night. There is almost no traffic at 10 p.m.. Moreover we can transfer a centralization of a certain area type by this picture. This region is mainly a business district with almost no residential area. Due to the large amount of available spaces in the skyscrapers we can see that there is a centralization given. Contribution to planning: The invisible Information about the travel behavior can be used in various ways. The most important usage is the planning of the underground and suburban trains to transfer the citizens. During night time like shown in the picture there is almost no demand for traveling and therefore only a few trains have to go. If there is a lot of traveling due to people going to work in the morning or back from work in the evening there should be a larger amount of trains available.