Exercise 1 Making the invisible Visible: Kolkata, India
FC-01x Future Cities (1st Run) - Exercise 1 : "Making the Invisible - Visible"
Uploaded on 2015-04-27 by AshrisChoudhury
1. You can see the road and the large buildings, pedestrians crossing the roads, the white cabs which are actually 'taxis', unique to Kolkata. There are some stalls by the footpath. There is a bnch of electrical lines running across the street. There is also a traffic signal visible. There are blank advertisement boards that are visible too. 2.Glass in a building is often associated with corporate offices. Hence, this large building, which infact is that of a bank can only be present in an area of Kolkata that is commercially active. Second, the bunch of electric wires actually tell us that this area is very populated, else there wouldn't be so many wires all around. Dense is a better word than populated, however. There are only cars in here majorly that speaks for economic strength of the region. The advertisement boards indicate that this area is economically vibrant. 3.Glass, Advertisement Boards, Electrical Lines, Cars tell us about economy, corporate nature, modern hustle bustle, and crowd. Images of such sort indicate that there is an urgent need of planning here because of the overwhelming activity. Since there will be many cars in such an area, pedestrians might face difficulty crossing the roads, hence, the invisible information demands us to formulate pedestrian friendly traffic rules in these areas. [1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14301621098334297.jpg