#Ivisible space license#

Sometimes, such blank codepoints have a totally different meaning, but as a side-effect, they also do not contain any glyph. As always, at ArchDaily we welcome the contributions of our readers if you want to submit an article or project, contact us.There are a bunch of white-space character in Unicode. Every month we explore a topic in-depth through articles, interviews, news, and projects. This article is part of the ArchDaily Topics: Democratization of Design. But as some mapping services become the universal, go-to platforms for the everyday person, thereвЂ™s the danger of perpetuating a broken system, where entire settlements and landscapes are left ignored by digital mapping tools, and they are subsequently rendered invisible by urbanists and policymakers. Mapping has always been biased вЂ“ itвЂ™s far from a neutral endeavor. Image В© Wikimedia User Dario Alpern under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported licenseДЄ global pandemic has put digital tools back at the forefront of our daily conversations, but as we continue to heavily rely on digital tools to make sense of the urban environment around us, it is more important than ever to critically engage with how these tools function.

Save this picture! PueyrredГіn Bridge - Avellaneda, Buenos Aires. Residents of a working-class suburb in Buenos Aires вЂ“ Avellaneda вЂ“ have made complaints over the years over the waste that lines the bank of a local creek, in an area prone to flooding.

Those resources are not extended to the cities of the Global South.ДЄpart from cities not being featured on Google Street View, thereвЂ™s also the situation where only a city's вЂњsanitizedвЂќ face is shown. Some unmapped locations photographed by volunteers may also end up documented in poor quality, as, for instance, few volunteers would have access to the equipment used by Tawanda Kanhema.ДЄ large component of GoogleвЂ™s resources regarding Street View are instead mainly spent on updating views of the countries of the Global North вЂ“ even the remote trails of Yosemite National Park in the United States. Countries and cities which are unmapped on Google Street View are in effect hindered from marketing themselves properly. In a вЂњpost-colonialвЂќ twenty-first-century, neo-colonialism means that some of these unmapped cities are greatly reliant on a tourism industry that seeks to attract travelers mainly from the countries of the Global North.

#Ivisible space license#

Leventhal Map Center licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license Save this picture! Map showing the extent of the British Empire in 1886.

ItвЂ™s a reflection on how digital technologies that can help us make sense of the built environment, can end up reiterating the unequal systems of power the world runs on. Much of Asia and the Middle East is similarly unavailable on Google Street View. Almost all of Central America has yet to be mapped. In Africa, only 13 countries have been mapped by Google Street View. However вЂ“ despite its availability across 83 countries вЂ“ in the grand scheme of things this coverage is hugely limited. This technology is, of course, Google Street View вЂ“ which recently turned fifteen years old.ДЇor design students around the world, it can function as a secondary site visit, supplementing information gathered in person. ItвЂ™s a useful tool for understanding buildings on a more comprehensive level than photographs. This technology is powerful вЂ“ allowing people to have an in-depth look at the cities they might one day visit, live in, or work in. Sustainability and Performance in ArchitectureДЄn online search away from any computer are eye-level views of many of the worldвЂ™s cities. The Future of Architectural Visualization