City: Niteroi. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
FC-01x Future Cities (1st Run) - Exercise 1 : "Making the Invisible - Visible"
Uploaded on 2015-04-21 by AnaPaulaCorradi
[1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14296329583525285.jpg Invisible informations: 1- Cars and pedestrians disrespect their designated locomotion area so they can do their own connections (as connections I mean coming from certain place and going to another place). This means whis area is not well connected as it should be, there is a urban planning failure. 2- Missing locomotion hierarchy. By this I mean: Small sidewalks, pedestrians find trouble and difficulties in locomotion. No bike lanes, which doesn't stimulate sustainable / non polluter transportations. Unnecessarily large crossroad, which created this middle "dead" area (referring to this triangle shaped white stripes area). This shows the importance city gives to motorized transportation x non motorized (sustainable) transportation. This invible informations shows urban planners that sustainable ways of locomotion are being ignored / given less attention than it should have. It is the urban planners duty to stimulate non motorized locomotions by giving them better paths to walk through. Also, some connections were ignored as well. *IMPORTANT: must add an important detail: the main traffic light turns green for pedestrians for very short few seconds, and last really long time for cars, which makes pedestrians cross outside the lane so they have time to cross all the lanes they need in order to get where they want to be.