Saudi Arabia, Riyadh
FC-01x Future Cities (Self-Paced) - Exercise 1 : "Making the Invisible - Visible"
Uploaded on 2017-04-29 by Yousef Alamir
the photo shows one of the big malls in Riyadh City that is scattered around over viewing main roads in the City, the time in which I took the Photo was around 6:00 PM in the middle of the week. Work usually Start at 8:00 am till 5:00 pm. Visible Information: 1- Point of interest for both shopping and entertainment 2- People goes to such points of interest by their own Cars directly after work. Invisible Information: 1- form the look of the parking area, the place is nearly full even before 8:00 pm, which means it not just a point of interest but also one of very few directions that families take for life amusement, people will keep flowing to this point and similar points until 11:00 pm. 2- having said that it is a high point of interest and as it is over looking the main road, the nearest interchange and road exits are always full with traffic that cause a lot of road jams which prevent passing people from reaching their places in the same area. Knowledge: if I take point number 2 of the invisible information, knowing that Riyadh lack a good public transportation, and the Mall will be full of people coming from many areas with their own cars, the high traffic to this area created by all that will need more solutions to the Urban space like: 1- changing some of the closer roads in the area and change their direction to withstand some of the traffic. 2- dedicate a public transportation in close areas to this mall in times that suit the residents.