reading response_Valeria Mena

reading response_Valeria Mena

  1. The social interaction tool used to measure some urban design characteristics is an easy way to collect data and with the repetitive visits to the site create a pattern. This “design pattern” will later be useful to plug the information to different programs and depending on the pattern get more result with the help of the softwares use. It is interesting how simple qualitative and quantitaive categories can give the researcher so much information about people behavior in an environment.
  2. It is crucial for the information to keep this indicatord of the social interaction method consistent. It does not matter teh size of the are being observed because each indicator has different ways to recollect its data. Time is importnat because all of this data was collected during active dates that will give a broad information to reduce the research time. The superillas street plans were used to recollect some data to emerge patterns of social intercation helping to create circular diagrams to compare different blocks around barcelona.
  3. Agreeing with what is being said infrastructure will determined the level of social intercation in the superillas. A well design space will give people a sense of safety and comfortability walking or biking in the super blocks. It feels like an urban refuge where pedestrians can walk without the worried of being ran over.