Belgium, Brussels
FC-01x Future Cities (Self-Paced) - Exercise 1 : "Making the Invisible - Visible"
Uploaded on 2016-12-08 by Patricia Cazorla
Brussels is the capital of the European Union. Is is a city with more than 1 million of inhabitants. From the picture we can see a high density of buildings and wide avenues that allow accessibility. Also there are a lot of people walking, there is not cycling infrastructure in the area. In the invisible information we can see that wide avenues mean that the area is lasting by traffic. The density of buildings give an idea over the number of citizens and business in the sector, therefore the presence of walking infrastructure. Also the quantity of public lighting shows the concentration of activities during the evening and night. This information allow improving the urban conditions of the area, establishing measures to calm the traffic principally in the ways connected to neighborhoods in the proximity, creating safer places with better exterior lighting, regulating the open hours of establishments, and creating open public places for leisure activities.