Clusters of Activity
The Identity of The City On a global scale, cities are destinations. They serve as landmarks for people: common ground to start conversation, as geographical reference points, and cultural cornerstones with so much more meaning beyond the explicit purpose and function of the buildings that they are composed of. Why is this?
More than Meets the Eye Throughout cities exist networks, sectors, a beating pulse of activity that varies in relation to where you stand. Anyone can feel when a street is “dead” or conversely, the vibrant air of a city fulfilling its potential.
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How Can We Show This? This map highlights buildings whose function can be considered entirely for the purpose of people to visit, dividing into six categories; cafes/restaurants, open spaces, hotels, shopping, places of worship, and miscellaneous. Through this division, we gain a better understanding of the city’s activity core, or its definitive “heart” Correlated with the data collected in this subject on people and network flow, the city’s centre is revealed.
What Does This Tell Us? By drawing connections between each category of buildings on top of pedestrian flow data, this map offers irrefutible evidence that there is more to the centre of the city than what paper can show. To all of us, the intersecting coloured lines and increased intensity of dots represents where Melbourne’s identity comes from, where the people want to be, where the city in itself is a living organism.
QV shopping centre: The life of a diverse area of the city.
By stringing together each building function throughout the city, we can see clusters of certain functions. Layering each of these streams on top of each other also shows us where the most active and exciting areas to visit can be found.
LEGEND: Building Footprint (Simplified)
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Bourke St: Heavy pedestrian flow as a result of the many places to visit.
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Flinders St: This part of the city may not see as much pedestrian flow as one might assume.
Russell Street Transect
Morphological Mapping ABPL30051 - Semester 1, 2018
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