Color+Urban+Planning

 **This image is a typical sketch of an urban planning project. As we can immediately see, there are basically four colors in this draft: green, yellow, red and orange. In urban planning these colors have a certain meaning. The green color is used for representing recreational areas or green areas. Red is used mainly to represent commercial uses, such as shops, shopping malls, grocery stores and so on. Orange is used to indentify residential building, that is, building with the capacity of holding more than one family. Yellow is used to represent residential areas with less capacity than the previous one, such as houses. So in this way, color is very important in the field of urban planning, since it helps us represent the different areas that we could find in the city. **  **Color is also important for pedestrians. As we can see in the image, stronger colors are used to identify streets with vehicular circulation. Black is a very aggressive color and its contrast is very strong with almost any other color. As we can see, pedestrian corridors are lighter than streets; they are either brown, light red or green. When we take a look at this picture we can immediately see than the corridors are the green ones or the lighter one, the ones that seem friendlier to the eye than the unkind uniform black. **