Brazil, São Paulo
FC-01x Future Cities (Self-Paced) - Exercise 1 : "Making the Invisible - Visible"
Uploaded on 2020-07-15 by Thayná Rodrigues
The submitted picture was taken from a pedestrian overpass near the Ibirapuera Park in São Paulo, Brazil. The visible information are: the traffic, how the cars and streets look like in Brazil, the park itself, some buildings and an obelisk at the back. The picture was taken at 8 am so a lot of people were going to work that’s why we can see the heavy traffic of the rush hour. Two invisible information that can be extracted out from the visible information of the photo are: the travel behavior and where is the centrality. At the right corner of the photo there is a heavy traffic that show us the direction that people are going to. Looking one more time to the flow of people going at the same direction, we can establish where is the centrality because of amount of people going there.The invisible information mentioned before can turn into knowledge when we use it to establish a plan for urban travel that makes the comings and goings more efficient, because if we know how often people go to a place we can think of routes and measures to design a more efficient system that includes.