Uploaded on 2020-06-26 by Jose Termini

La Vega Slum This is the La Vega slum, located in the city of Caracas, Venezuela The visible The formal or planned (distant context) -Residential typology buildings of 12 floors or more. -Commercial and office buildings -Planned walks and tree paths The informal or unplanned (Immediate context of the photo) -Large amount of shabby house -Poor building materials in houses -Houses with 2 floors of height or more -Surface electrical wiring -Blue water containers -Small alleys The Invisible -If there are blue water containers on the roofs, then it means that there is a poor water service or there are no water pipes in the worst case -Overcrowding brings social problems that will affect the immediate environment with an informal economy, saturation of basic services and increased criminal activity. Only in Caracas in 2018-2019 there were 1,617 homicides, the data collected and geospatialized indicated that the murders occur mostly in the slums but also in the vicinity of the slums. Homicides generally occur in places where the NOT visible urban features are as follows: Residential areas Industrial zones Streets where there is a physical barrier See the Story maps of the Homicidies in Caracas https://arcg.is/0POWGm