Ecuador, Quito
FC-01x Future Cities (Self-Paced) - Exercise 1 : "Making the Invisible - Visible"
Uploaded on 2020-06-05 by Martín Sánchez
There is a lot of visible information that can be seen in the photo. For instance, we can see that the picture is taken from a really high place (Pichincha mountain) and that the vegetation surrounding this exact place is quite different from any other. The vegetation is dry and has absolutely no trees. Also, we can see the buildings that create or make the city of Quito are next to each other, meaning that there are not a lot of green areas within the city center. On the other hand, when we try and explore more the photo, we can see the invisible information that the city of Quito has to offer. The first one is the growth of the city. In the picture we can see that the city grows either from the left side or the right side, but it does not grow to the front or the back. This is because of all the mountains that surround the city, and the difficulty it can bring to build on such a hard ground. The second invisible information is the constant and exhausting traffic that is made by the enormous quantity of cars and bad public transportation system.