Philippines, Mandaluyong City
FC-01x Future Cities (Self-Paced) - Exercise 1 : "Making the Invisible - Visible"
Uploaded on 2018-04-16 by Peter Angliongto
This is the Ortigas Central Business District or at least part of it. From this photo the visible information include all the built up infrastructure that is in the area. Total GFA of Buildings, Types of Structures -Residential, Retail, Commercial Office, Institutional , Zoning Demarcations as the changes from low to high density areas can be seen. Other visible information but not necessarily in this picture include, people and traffic patterns, types of transit options, Roads, Parks , pedestrian lanes and elevated passes, etc. 2 invisible information one may derive from this could include: 1) Population preferences from Google searches of things to buy or do or eat, etc; 2) Travel preferences by tracking Cellphone locations of users to see where they walk or get on or off transit options. Taking the information from cellphone locations of users can be turned into knowledge by tracking patterns of how the users transport themselves. These could be in the form of micro commutes or walks in the communities or finding out the travel connection nodes. An urban planner can then glean from the