110,925
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15,125
Norman Population
Residents in Study Area
GRAPHICS
Our focus area centered on the heart of Norman, which is The University of Oklahoma. It is the main economic and cultural driver for the city. In 2010 the University saw the largest number of enrolled freshmen in the school’s history. The population of Norman took a small dip in 2010, but finished around 6,000 higher than it was ten years prior. That increase also helped bring in 7,000 more jobs to the area. The most dense part of our study area is in the “South Greek” portion of campus.
Total population of block region 1-300
109,323 110,349
111,543 112,551 110,925
15,126 13,050
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2010
Source: 2011 Norman, OK Community Report Card
27,149
OU Student Population
59,537
People in Labor Force
27,149 26,696 26,219
26,201
2007
2008
2009
52,788
26,490
2010
2011
Source: OU Enrollment Services
2000
59,537
2010
Selected Economic Characteristics
301-600
601-900 901-1200 1201-1500 1501+
FAร ADE ANALYSIS
Transparency Most retail stores have a fair amount of transparency due to displays. Other stores and restaurants have poor transparency. Sinage Sinage is prominent on awnings only visible from across the street. Sinage perpendicular to the facade is minimal. Streetlight sinage is available, but not in use. Recessions Recessions in the facades for display space and cafe seating make the area more interactive. Alley ways act as channels to parking and other businesses.
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Nightlife in Norman is concentrated on Campus Corner and downtown area. In general, street lighting in Norman is directed towards the roads. Only the campus corner district and E. Main Street have dedicated pedestrian lighting. It is essential to have sufficient lighting on the traveling between parking and destination in order to avoid a sense of insecurity. Sufficient lighting is measured by using light meter to determine if the area reach minimum requirement of standard luminance. Although the majority activities in downtown Norman are located on E. Main Street, it is essential to provide more lighting on Gray and Comanche Street for both safety issues and future expansion.
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MASS
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CART, Cleveland Area Rapid Transit, is the public transportation system that one can take to get from destination A to destination B. However, as can be seen on the map, the frequented routes are those associated with the University of Oklahoma. One of the heavily ridden routes, connects a large parking facility off the main campus to the â&#x20AC;&#x153;South Ovalâ&#x20AC;? where the main classrooms are. This means that most CART passengers drive their car in order to take the bus. Having residents closer to the inner city, between Lindsey and Main streets, means that the city members have a better grasp of the on goings of the University and the students having a better grasp on what is going on in the city. Students can make a strong contribution to the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vitality and cultural diversity by providing a youthful perspective. By looking at the map, one can see that most of the student housing is south of the Lindsey border and quite east of the main area as well. On top of that, there are some major public transportation inadequacies that force students to find alternate transportation, mostly cars. This causes a higher need for parking as well as causes traffic jams.
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Pedestrian counts were taken on weekdays by video recording at single location from 7:00 am until 10:00 pm.
TRAFFIC
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The benches are located at the center of South Oval on the campus. The seats are bad seating areas because they are lack of comfortable zone without shading or vegetation. Also, the seatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s orientation does not have a good security zone due to the high amount of circulation flow and a static observation around the area. The seats adjusting to the old OU libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s entrance has provided a better observation with one direction. At the same time, the brush behind the seats allows a back isolation to the busy circulation and performs as a security zone.
fit is a good seating zone with a good amount of privacy and comfort. This area can define as secondary seating on the campus because the primary design was not serving as a public seating. However, this area became a good spot for public gather and relaxation.
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Though often understood as a by-product of urbanity, traffic is really the only means by which urbanity exists. Traffic allows for space to be differentiated: on the city scale by commuter traffic (differentiating work/home) and event traffic (play/home). At the global scale import/export traffic along with immigrant/emigrant traffic.
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Visual presence rating (VPR) combines pedestrian, bicycle, and vehicular traffic data to calculate the average number of seconds that people collectively spend in front of a given 50 foot space in a hour. Essentially VPR measures how much time the general Public spends in a given area .The rating is weighted by street types. Streets with more lanes receive a slightly lower VPR score because of higher traffic speeds, less traffic stops and further distances from storefronts. This data set serves as
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