Lebanon, Jdaidet el Matn
FC-01x Future Cities (Self-Paced) - Exercise 1 : "Making the Invisible - Visible"
Uploaded on 2019-10-31 by Celine Yazbek
This picture was taken while I was stuck in traffic at 5 p.m. There is a lot of traffic at this time of the day because people are starting to leave their jobs to go back home. What is fisrt of all visible in this picture: is the variety of the constructions. We can see new high rise glasss buildings on the right and aged mid rise buildings on the left.The G1 building for example, seems to be an office building, while the mid rise buildings are most probably residential. What is invisible here is that we do not know how many inhabitants are linving in the mid rise buildings and we do not know either how many workers and visitors are in the high rise buildings. Secondly, according to the good aspect of the road and the huge amount of cars, we can deduce that this area attracts people mainly because it is a place of passage, which connects a city with some urban functions to another. What is invisible here is to visualize interchange patterns spatially and temporally.It tells the redistribution of passengers in the traffic network and it helps us for querying the situation for traffic flows.