Made In Milton: Analysis Booklet

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Milton Network Analysis

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Analysis

Declaration of Authorship To get to know Milton, help us think about the street network, and verify that our digimap download was accurate (particularly for the pedestrian network), we started by visiting Milton in the pouring rain, taking photos and mapping any discrepancies against a printed plan of the area. The Multiple Centrality Analysis package was tricky to coordinate as a group, and a lot of time disappeared to the blind leading the blind - trying to navigate technical issues with no expert among us and waiting for results to load or not, depending on how the computers felt each day! With Marc working full-time, we met each weekend. Once we became masters of the software - we all learned how to edit and check georeferenced streeet networks in QGIS and run through the virutal computer - we were able to produce our outputs reasonably quickly and move on to really considering what they meant. We divided up analysis outputs, went away to think about them, and reconvened to discuss. As we approached the end of the phase, we met more frequently and really drilled down as a group into what was important, what it meant and how to communicate that. Our different strengths and backgrounds really came together to produce the booklet and boards explaining our work, for which we worked backwards from our presentation. Since we had such a technical package and our audience was unlikely to have any existing knowledge base, we thought very carefully about how to communicate the fundamentals necessary for our results to make sense. We then worked outwards from that to the extra, more technical information and discussion supporting these results which went into the booklet. For 3 of us, centrality itself was an entirely new concept, never mind the software. Having Marc’s existing knowledge of the subject was invaluable. Liaw’s proficiency in Photoshop and Indesign meant we were able to translate our ideas into visualisations easily. Lwin spent time carefully editing networks for our scenario testing. Poppea researched what centrality is all about and did some kernel density analysis on our outputs. Together, we produced a body of work through which we all learned skills we could then take to our different strategy groups.

Prepared by Marc Miller, Xunhern Liaw, Lwin Mar Kyaw, Poppea Daniel Urban Design Studies Unit, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, September - October 2016


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