Chapter 3 – Part four: A central metropolitan block

Obectives of the studies

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Before turning to the redevelopment studies we defined the objectives as follows:

1. To show how the scale of redevelopment and traffic architecture affect the levels of accessibility and environment;
2. to examine the way in which the capacity of the network and that of the redeveloped area interrelate;
3. to explore major ‘design assumptions’—e.g. whether to provide separate levels for pedestrians and vehicles, whether to provide infiltration of some vehicles, or to provide for more vehicles to be parked at greater distances from their destinations; and
4. to explain briefly the methods used in the studies.

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As in the previous studies we had to make many assumptions in order to permit the work to proceed. More detailed examination of the planning problems of the area, and its relation to a wider area, might result in some of these assumptions being questioned, and in particular might well suggest that changes in the land uses and amounts of floor space are needed.