Brazil, Presidente Prudente
FC-01x Future Cities (Self-Paced) - Exercise 1 : "Making the Invisible - Visible"
Uploaded on 2017-02-05 by Michelle Rossetti Fernandes
1- This is one of the principal avenues of my city, named Avenida Washington Luiz, where i live, this photo was taken on saturday, when the avenue is very quiet, otherwise, during the week, from monday to friday, the traffic is very intense there, especially on the morning and in the afternoon, at night the avenue is empty, without cars or people. The situation there changes depending of the day and the hour. So on this photo we can see few cars on the street, because all the places are closed. The avenue is very thight, it is difficult to drive with intense traffic there. We can see too that most of the places aren't so high, looking on this side of the city. There are some trees over the sidewalks. 2- One of the Invisilbe Information on this picture, is the bad distribution of services in the places on the avenue, we can conclude that, because, the avenue dies on the weekends and after 6 p.m. on the week, at the same time has a intense traffic on the morning and in the afternoon, from monday to friday, when for example, it is almost impossible to stop de car and when many car accidents happens here. The avenue counts with many medical clinics and many comercial places, this areas work only during the day, there are few restaurants and places that work at night. When there isn't movement the place gets dangerous. Other Invisible Information is the hot weather, the climate is a problem here, especially on this area, where there are many building together and few green areas to help this. This situation also takes people to use more cars here and contributes to intensify the traffic, because the public transportation has a bad quality here and doens't have air conditioning. 3- With the Invisible Information about the bad distribuition of services, we could plan for here a better distribuition of activities, the avenue then, would have a movement, not so intense and not so quiet, during all the time, becaming a safe place, for people to walk at night or drivers during the day. If the activities are well distributed, the movement is too. We can conclude more many things that would help in a better planning of this avenue or the city, from just analysing one photo. The invisible information then became knowledge here.