Uploaded on 2020-04-09 by Christian Andro Nataño Madrogaba

I live in Fairview, a district in Quezon City, which undergoes gentrification due to the construction of the mass rail transport line along Commonwealth Avenue (one of the major throughfares in the city and perhaps in the region). This photo was taken around early March 2020, around midnight. The reason why it was interesting is that you can already see a lot visible pieces of information that can be used to extract invisible ones. Both of which purposable in creating decisions as a urbanist. Here are two those visible information and the invisible data that can be extracted from them: 1. The traffic congestion along either side of the road. The traffic congestion may be used to describe or observe any of the following invisible data: the vehicular activity patterns of residents and/or the point-to-point correlation of such patterns with respect to the lanes to which they are generated. 2. The functional type of architecture along the road. The building typology describes what kind of activities exists in the district (commercial, industrial, etc). In the case of No.2, the invisible information can be used to plan the course of the development or identify which building types can be developed.