Postoffice Street, Galveston, Texas
FC-01x Future Cities (1st Run) - Exercise 1 : "Making the Invisible - Visible"
Uploaded on 2015-04-22 by Bikova
[1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14296610683263129.jpg The photo is from Galveston island, Texas. It is one of the streets in the old historical district of this island. Visible on the picture is the street, the buildings, and the one vehicle. We can see that the street has two lanes, and most important, has no parking space on the visible side of the street. However, we see one vehicle parked there regardless. We can also see few buildings with stores on the first floor. And there are few palm trees on the side walk. The two invisible information that I want to present here are associated with the buildings shown on the photo. The first one is that there are people working in the stores located on the first floors. We don't know how what kind of stores are there, and how many people work. The second invisible information is that there are people living on the upper parts of the buildings. Again, we don't know how many apartments are there, and how many people live there. Knowing how many people work and live in these buildings will help us with the calculation of parking spots available for this area. Having the right number of parking space for the people that work and live here, will make this area very much more likeable and pleasant urban place.