- 1 cup full of cars;
- 1 spoon of bad planning;
- 1 spoon of lack of political will;
- Spice it up with technical ignorance;
- Mix it all up and let people's inertia do the rest.
Lisbon's Blood Vessels – A mapping experiment from Pedro Miguel Cruz on Vimeo.
Bon appetit. We should experience an heart attack at any minute now.
2 comments:
I really like this way of thinking about the city. Just one thing though with the clots analogy. I agree that lots of slow cars in traffic is bad for health of that neighborhood and the city as a whole, but just unblocking the clot i.e. 'smoothing the flow' is as we know infamously not the answer. I wonder if the next step in developing the concept could be something like cars/trucks representing blood pressure or cholesterol and the flow of pedestrians/cyclists being the key measure as something good in the bloodstream (HDL or oxygen?). Perhaps more difficult to get data or represent as a visualisation?
Thinking further, there have been a few animations using bikeshare data which could perhaps be developed e.g.
http://sociablephysics.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/london-bike-hire-scheme-animating-your-journey-to-work/
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