Urban Environment Mapping & Observation

3.2.5 URBAN ENVIRONMENT MAPPING & OBSERVATION

With the urban sphere being a host of a broad range of people and services, the urban environment of the four selected case studies is observed by the author on the dates of 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th, of July conforming with the field work. Observation is documented digitally through two pre-assembled documents on the iPad software Procreate and during the period of 10:00 to 15:00, when the author is free from conducting questionnaires and observing pedestrians. Observation is noted in one document through general and timestamped comments, and in another through Hillnhütter’s (2021) environment matrix method of describing the features of walking environments. The matrix enables the status of seven environmental features to be scored with a condition value between one and four. See figure 3.3 for Hillnhütter’s (2021) environment matrix.