Uploaded on 2017-02-28 by Ekaterina Gogoleva

Presented picture was taken in New York around 7 PM on the intersection of 32nd St and Broadway. To the visible information on this picture we can refer pedestrians on a pedestrian walk, lights, buildings, windows, closed shops, restaurants, cars, commercial vehicles, garbage collection point, signs. Using this visible information and connecting data we can get some information about the area where picture was taken (invisible information): it is a business district with office buildings. Walkway is wide but at 7 PM we don't get to see so many pedestrians, it does not get used by people in after-business hours(1); garbage collection point on a pedestrian way is filled with bags and separated from the driveway by standing commercial vehicles that are not used in after-business hours(2). To transform the information about garbage collection point into knowledge and to use it to reach better quality of living and working in the district we will need to make a research and get more information about businesses in the area and schedule of the collection garbage by the trucks. In my opinion better city gets used by their inhabitants in full - throughout the day and evening time. It is possible to make a better urban space shown on the picture in two ways - both of them would include "hiding" the garbage collection points and parking of the commercial vehicles away from the pedestrian zone. One - is to create underground chambers in the areas where commercial vehicles are standing so the garbage bags would be removed from the streets and get replaced by the benches and trees people can use during the lunch break and in after work time, while commercial vehicles will be parked in underground or on-the-ground parking lots that will be designed in new buildings. Two - is to design office buildings with businesses on the ground floor that will have a garbage collection point already inside of the building.