scholarly journals Evaluation Study Of Walkability Index In Central Business District (CBD) Area, Pekanbaru City

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 175-185
Author(s):  
Muhammad Sofwan ◽  
Mira Hafizhah Tanjung
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
Evaluation Study ◽  
Sustainable Transportation ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Walkability Index ◽  
Project Model ◽  
Mixed Land Use ◽  
Business District

Walkable cities emphasize cities with high walkability values, where walkability can be defined as the degree to which the environment can be pedestrian friendly. Walkable city is considered to be able to increase people's desire to walk so that it can make the environment more humanistic and can also help realize one of the objectives of sustainable transportation. The value of walkability can be viewed from the perspective of the urban form (macro level) of an area. The Central Business District (CBD)  Pekanbaru City walkability index assessment uses the WAI IPEN Project model that measures the form of the Urban Form. The walkability assessment process in the Pekanbaru Kota Sub-District Area (CBD) divides the study area into 6 grids. The analysis shows that there are 4 grids that have a negative walkability value. In the analysis of the walkability value pattern it can be seen that the area dominated by office activities has a lower walkability value compared to the area that has mixed land use.

scholarly journals Greened pedestrian linkage for Yangon central business district with its open spaces

2019 ◽  
Vol 91 ◽  
pp. 05001
Author(s):  
Myo Thu Aung ◽  
Alexander Belkin
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Land Use Changes ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Land Utilization ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Land Use Pattern ◽  
Effective Part ◽  
Business District

Yangon has passed a phase of rapid constructional development. This development has resulted in the growth of Yangon over its previous administrative boundaries and in tremendous changes of land use. Changes in land use have led to a growing number of environmental problems and a lack of infrastructure. The negative effects of spontaneous land use pattern, such as insufficient land use and damage of the natural resources along with the urban environmental problems of the mega-size urban area, can hardly be overcome after arising. They have to be minimized in advance by a foresight concept of efficient framework for land utilization pattern of future urban expansion in the Yangon City. This city has higher population density due to more accessible and positive economic situations than other areas. In this paper, the greened pedestrian linkage for Yangon Central Business District (C.B.D.), in which the largest number of colonial period buildings in Southeast Asia is located, is suggested. The essential requirements for the improvement and landscaping links are indicated, and this linkage may be an effective part of the green areas for the city’s ecological framework.

scholarly journals Making Way for the Car: Minimum Parking Requirements and Porirua City Centre

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Angus Hulme-Moir
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
Optimal Level ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Choice Data ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Development Costs ◽  
Travel Decisions ◽  
Business District

<p>Minimum parking requirements (MPRs) mandate that each new development provides enough parking to ensure ample provision at the time of peak demand. This approach tends to oversupply parking above the optimal level, and by bundling parking into the development costs, ensures that parking is free to the user. As a result, land-use and transport decisions are distorted. A case study of Porirua central business district (CBD) was undertaken to investigate the use of MPRs in the New Zealand context, and to assess their impacts on transport and land-use patterns. Findings indicate that MPRs tend to oversupply parking relative to weekly mean and peak occupancies. Land use mapping found that 24 percent of CBD land is allocated to car parking and MPRs were shown to contribute to dispersed development patterns. Stated choice data and a cost recovery model for car parking highlight how free and ample car parking provision favours car driving and has distortionary impacts on travel decisions.</p>

Retrofitting Suburbia

Suburb ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Royce Hanson
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
County Council ◽  
Montgomery County ◽  
Hybrid Zones ◽  
Metro Station ◽  
Public Facilities ◽  
Central Business Districts ◽  
Business District

This chapter focuses on the trials, tribulations, and results of planning and managing redevelopment of two activity centers in Montgomery County: Friendship Heights and the Hills and Bethesda. It first considers the decision of the Committee on the Planning, Zoning and Development of Central Business Districts and Transit Station Areas to rethink its development strategy for the twelve Metro station areas under county jurisdiction. It then describes the committee's proposal for three Central Business District zones, called CBD-1, CBD-2, and CBD-3, which secured the approval of the Montgomery County Council. It also discusses the planning politics of Friendship Heights and Bethesda and shows how the two projects provided tests of the legal theories underlying new hybrid zones and for balancing land use with the capacity of public facilities, especially transportation.

scholarly journals White-Collar Workers and Neighbourhood Change: Jarvis Street in Toronto, 1880–1920

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-19
Author(s):  
Nicholas Lombardo
Keyword(s):  
Urban Form ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
The North ◽  
White Collar Workers ◽  
Neighbourhood Change ◽  
Business District ◽  
Physical Changes

In 1880, Jarvis Street, just east of Toronto’s central business district, was the city’s premier residential district, home to notable Torontonians such as the Masseys and the Gooderhams. By 1920, the street would host a new group of young, unattached, white-collar workers. Changes to the social, demographic, and occupational character of Jarvis Street were accompanied by physical changes to its built form. The family estates of the nineteenth-century elite were converted into boarding and rooming houses, or torn down and replaced by some of the city’s first apartment buildings. These changes were driven by the growth of corporate capitalism in Toronto and the attendant growth of white-collar workers, as well as changes to urban form associated with the growth of the city outwards. This article examines the relationship between neighbourhood change and larger socio-economic changes occurring across the North American urban landscape at the time. It does so by using a variety of historical data, including City of Toronto tax assessments, city directories, as well as contemporary newspaper accounts. This case study of Jarvis Street’s social, gender, occupational, and physical changes shows the way that larger socio-economic processes are written at the scale of the neighbourhood. In doing so, it demonstrates the importance of understanding neighbourhood change as local materialization of larger social, economic, and demographic processes.

scholarly journals Development of Employment Sub-centres in the City of Ahmedabad, India

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Talat Munshi ◽  
Mark Brussel ◽  
Mark Zuidgeest ◽  
Martin Van Maarseveen
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
Spatial Modelling ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Transit Oriented Development ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
Modelling Techniques ◽  
Business District ◽  
The City

This article describes how employment sub-centres can be identified applying geo-spatial modelling techniques in the context of metropolitan areas in India, and how the development of these employment centres can be linked to the levels of accessibility to labour, access to transport infrastructure as well as land use mix and land use diversity. For the city of Ahmedabad, employment sub-centres are identified for the year 2010, while the progression of employment in retail, commercial and industrial sectors in each of these centres is studied for the period from 1980 to 2010. Definite the signs of sprawl-type development and polarization reversal are observed, including the emergence of new employment sub-centres across the urban area, and the rapid growth of centres further away from the central business district. Retail and commercial sectors have grown exponentially, whereas industrial and manufacturing sector’s growth is stagnant. This development is mixed and heterogeneous, with the growth of the retail and the commercial sectors found to have a significant and positive relation with access to labour and transport infrastructure. These identified patterns of development provide important information to urban planners enabling them to make informed decision, for example, in locating future employment activities, identifying future transit-oriented development nodes, etc.

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