Milton Booklet No.1a
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Prepared by Yuan Li, Luca Tucci, Martina Veronesi, Yiqiao Wang, Yifan Xu Urban Design Studies Unit, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, September - October 2016
Booklet No.1
Introduction This booklet contains the results of the ‘Drawing the Existing City’-group. We are a multidisciplinary group existing of 5 members with different backgrounds going from Urban Design to Architecture to Landscape and Garden Architecture. Putting our strengths together we went to Milton to analyse the existing city. What does this mean? Focusing on the urban fabric and public spaces, going from buildings to streets to vegetation, we have mapped all kinds of different physical objects and spaces. Our main goal was to come up with a final map that represents how Milton physically exists today. In the following pages we will take you in on our approach, on how we have processed this information and what we have learned out of it. Furthermore, we show what our findings are and close with an overall conclusion.
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Drawing the Existing City
Contents Introduction
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Authors
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Approach Preparations
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Site visit
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Digital mapping
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Result Legend
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Final map
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Findings
Yuan Li
Urban Design, University of Strathclyde
Luca Tucci
Architectural Engineering, University of Brescia
Martina Veronesi
Architecture, University IUAV of Venice
Yiqiao Wang
Landscape and Garden Architecture, School of Arts of University College Ghent
Yifan Xu
Advanced Architecture Design, University of Strathclyde
Buildings
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Streets
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Vegetation
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Comparing the map Outcomes
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Overall conclusion Summary
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References
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Figures list
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Approach Preparations
Before jumping into the deep we started thinking about how we could approach this task in the most efficient way. First of all we had to know what we were dealing with. So our first step was to get a map of Milton. This would be the base for the rest of our works. The second step was to make a plan: how are we approaching this whole area? Looking all bright we made a list of things we had to do on site using the key points in the analysis brief from the teachers. A list of physical elements that had to be mapped was made according to 4 themes: 1) buildings, 2) roads, 3) vegetation, 4) land use. A last task was added, taking pictures of Milton and all the things related to the previous themes, so we will have an updated image of our study area to use as expression of our findings. The layers were grouped according to theme. Having all done this it was a matter of dividing the whole piece. Questions started to run about which way was more effective: do we each map a single theme (or a big part of it) for the whole area or do we each take a smaller area of Milton and do all layers for that area. Pros of doing it the first way was to have a uniform lay-out for each layer and having mapped all the needed elements. No misunderstandings of how each person worked the whole area. The advantage of doing it according to the second way was walking a smaller area and look at the place as a whole. The cons are the opposites of these two ways, respectively having to walk the whole area and looking at each layer as a piece of a puzzle or to take the chance of losing time because of misunderstanding each other and haven’t mapped all the elements in the same way, thus resulting in a nonuniform map. Because of this latter we decided to go with the first option. To prepare our field trip we printed out a plan of Milton on scale 1/1000 (as asked in the brief), resulting 4 A0’s. To handle this some of us cut in A3 sheets.
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Picture of full printed map of Milton on scale 1:1000
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Preparations of themes and layers (1)
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Preparations of themes and layers (2)
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Site visit Fig.7:
The fastest way to reach Milton is by car or by public transport. The last stop of bus 75 is located in the north of Milton. For our first visit we decided to go by bus to see how long it takes to go there from the city centre, to see the bus track to our study area and to see the surrounding neighbourhood. Once we got here the mapping could begin. We started out in groups, matching up with someone of the same theme. This way we could find comfort in mapping the whole area by foot and it was also a good way to find out about unanswered questions as ‘should I also map this?’ or ‘is this something that our group should map or the Experience Study Area-group?’. Afterwards you can join each other to overview the work. Once we started mapping we got a good view of Milton. You try to pay attention on all different kinds of elements afraid of missing something. What we’ve learned about doing fieldwork in such a big area (as it is when you go walking), you need to be efficient and more important practical. We’re not only talking about the prepared maps, but as Milton is located in the UK, rainy weather is not excluded. So be sure of having your gear ready and have some handy bag to put all unnecessary stuff in. You only have two hands and you need to hold three things (map, pen and umbrella), sometimes even four when taking pictures. After our first visit we put all our information in a single file to put it on digital device to check and correct the map easily. The use of digital devices such as tablets can be very handy when doing revisiting the site. It allows you to get a better view of Milton and mark things digitally on it. This way you don’t have to haul all these different cut sheets. What we thought after some visits, is that you can print an extra map on a bigger scale so that the map gets more manageable on-site (and some things don’t have to be that detailed). As for check-ups it is handy to go by car to find specific things you need further investigation. This way you also experience how the vehicles move around Milton and what they see from their point of view. A last piece of advice we have is that no matter how you think that you took pictures of everything you needed to cover, always take more pictures of things you didn’t needed to cover, because somehow you always end up short in pictures.
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Mapping on paper or digitaly
Always have an umbrella with you
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Finishing mapping together
Map per group
Fig.10: Make it fun
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other programs, to think about making the file as light as possible: use polylines and blocks with few lines (for example the car blocks and street lightning poles can be displayed very simple). Some help to get through digitalizing the map is to use Google maps, Google Earth or any other tool that gives you the possibility to revisit the site visually. You may have forgotten how many stores that building was made of or may have missed some other elements. Make sure you check the date of the source, as in Google maps you can have a different time display in 2D and street view.
After the site visit the digital mapping could begin. After already succeeded in getting a base map we started on putting the selected layers on it. Then the problems started to pile up: basic questions as ‘what is the right boundary?’, ‘which program do we use?’, ‘how to organize all these layers from each other?’, ‘do we have to draw with vectors?’, and so on. Once again it is good to make a picture in your head of the wanted result and start organizing it like that. Make one file where all the finished layers are put together so that everyone has the updated map. Also make good arrangements with each other so that you won’t end up drawing in an outdated layer. Another important point, very time-related issue, is the question about vectors. As we were asked to draw the digital map with vectors, we ended up frustrated about it, because it is way more time-consuming than working with pixels. And indeed, you cannot draw up a map in pixels only, but as we all are thinking about the next stages, we had to consider this option. What makes it so difficult is that after drawing all the layers, you start to work up the map. This had to be done in Illustrator as some classmates pointed out that it gives trouble when doing it in AutoCad. So we followed this advice resulting in frustration as some of us don’t have the skills or knowledge to efficiently do this. We had to use AutoCad to make all the part of the map that require precise measurement, and Illustrator for all the other part of our drawing. Working with two different programs made it harder to get all the layers together in one file. At some point we asked ourselves if it is relevant for the next stages to go through so much trouble. Because having a map in AutoCad, gives you the opportunity to save it as a PDF and work it up in Photoshop as in the next stages the design will change a big part of the existing fabric. That is what we are thinking now. Time will tell which approach would have been better: vectors or pixels. This ‘dilemma’ is only seen when starting to work up the map. There is no question that a digital map is needed of the existing city. Be sure that when you start drawing in AutoCad or Illustrator or
Fig.12: Google Earth Street view
Fig.11: Organize the layers
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Fig.13: Google Earth 2D
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Result Legend
The end result of the whole analysis can be found in the legend and final map. The legend consists of 3 (redirected) themes: 1) buildings, 2) streets, 3) vegetation. Land use has been left out as it collides with the other elements. We solved this by putting all the names of the buildings and projects on the map. Per theme we have grouped certain layers. An overview can be seen on the right page. Under the theme ‘building’ we have put some layers that are disputable. As for example we put the layer of ‘private parcel’ under this theme, because it is related to the (private) residential buildings. Thus having more meaning under this theme than for example ‘vegetation’. In the next chapter ‘findings’ most layers will be explained. As each week more layers were added up, make sure you make the key at the beginning of the work up. This makes it much easier to get an overview and saves you time (larger files will take more time to work in). Try to use the right graphics from the beginning if possible (think of trees, cars, street bumps, ..) so you don’t have to redo some of the already finished layers. All the layers have been worked up with colours and descriptions. Before all the layers were put together we proceed to clean and tidy up all the useful layers in each theme file in Illustrator to have the lightest final file. This will help during further stages and also it is easier to open and print. The final map shows the work of past weeks. The satisfaction and reward of having worked with vectors is that you can zoom in very detailed.
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Tall street lightning poles Short street lightning poles
Undifine Green Area
Reduce Speed Now
Parks School Playground
Vertical road signs Horizontal road signs
Bus Stop
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Car parks
Green Corridor
Illegal car parks
Woodland
Street bumps
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Wall fences
Normal green garden
Wood fences
Well maintained paved garden
Hedges
Normal paved garden
Iron fences
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Pedestrian entrance
Small trees ( 3 to 6 meters)
Car entrance
Medium trees ( 6 to 10 meters)
Shop entrance
Large trees ( up to 10 meters)
Fig.14: Legend final map Milton
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BUILDINGS - Residential buildings
Residential houses are grouped in a circular way per block, putting the gardens in the middle. This results in a sun orientation for every house at some moment of the day. The houses are most of the time semi-attached or fully attached going from 2 to 10 per block. The more the south, the more blocks are grouped smaller resulting in more detached buildings. For one neighbourhood (Northwest) the orientation differs from the rest of Milton. These buildings are organised in a vertical and horizontal manner. In one part (the northern part) is arranged in more defined blocks, while in the Northwest there is an even more pronounced block: the grid. The high-rises in the north are solitaire apartments arranged in two groups of each three blocks. The roofs of the residential houses can be divided in mainly two types: side gabled roof or hip roof. Note that the houses in the southern part are more of the latter type.
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Fig.16: Residential buildings
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Tall street lightning poles Short street lightning poles
Undifine Green Area
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Fig.20: Attached housing
BUILDINGS - Housing typology
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The typology can be divided a few types:
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- Detached houses - Semi-detached houses - 2-storey cottages - 2-storey flats - 3-storey flats - 4-storey flats - 17-storey flats
Civic Space
A peculiar thing about these residential housing is the separation between each other. For some blocks look like two houses, but are actually four houses. Also the passage way to the back garden from the front garden is common shared between two neighbours. This is sometimes an open passage, sometimes a closed passaged (door). This comes more clear in the next layers.
Couple housing
Vertical road signs Horizontal road signs
Bus Stop
Bus stop Car parks
Fig.22: 4-store flat
Green Corridor
Illegal car parks
Woodland
Street bumps
Canal
Two-way road
Private parcel
Well maintained green garden
Wall fences
Normal green garden
Wood fences
Well maintained paved garden
Hedges
Normal paved garden
Iron fences
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Pedestrian entrance
Small trees ( 3 to 6 meters)
Car entrance
Medium trees ( 6 to 10 meters)
Shop entrance
Large trees ( up to 10 meters)
Fig.23: 17-store flat
Fig.24: Pointed roof
Fig.25: Piramidal roof
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Fig.19: Residential buildings
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Fig.28: Well maintained green garden
BUILDINGS - Private parcels and garden type Fig.29: Well maintained paved garden
This layer is put under the theme of building as it makes part of the residential buildings. The private parcels are consisting of small to average plots, containing enough space to build a house with garden. In general we can say that the private parcels are well divided, although sometimes in a peculiar way (related with the building typology, fences and entrances).
Fig.30: Normal green garden
The division between two parcels at the corners are sometimes not side by side, which leaves out a green part of the garden to the public (the garden is not claimed by one of the neighbours). In this layer it comes apparent that each private parcel has a front and back garden. We have distinguished 5 different garden types for the gardens:
Fig.31: Normal paved garden
• Well maintained green garden: with flowers and plants to decorate • Well maintained paved garden: well designed pavement texture • Normal green garden: plain grass in front of houses • Normal paved garden: filled with concrete or brick for car park or easy maintenance • Messy garden: filled with unattended grass or unwanted furniture Most of the gardens in Milton are just plain grass and have been regularly cut, especially the backyard. For the convenience of maintenance a few owners filled the garden with concrete to avoid regular grass cutting. There is still a number of owners who design their gardens and take good care of them. We also noticed the presence of sheds in the front and back garden.
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Private parcel
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Wood fences
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Fig.27: Private parcels and garden type
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Orientation and the heights of the garden can play a factor as in some street you can see that one part of the street (south and higher levelled) has more plantings than the other side of the street (north on street level). 0 50
Fig.32: Messy garden
Pedestrian entrance
Messy garden
Fig.35: Legend private parcels and type Small treesgarden ( 3 to 6 meters)
Car entrance
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Shop entrance
Large trees ( up to 10 meters)
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Fig.37: Wood fences
BUILDINGS - Fences Fig.38: Iron fences We have noticed that in Milton there are different types of fences. We distinguish 4 types of fences: • Wood fences: formed by mainly thin wooden planks side by side and painted with a transparent paint to maintain a natural look • Iron fences: formed by painted steel elements of various design and height, depending on the area in which they are used. Typically they are formed from thin, side by side vertical elements, permeable to sight • Wall fences: it is an element constructed with bricks and decorations or concrete, sometimes left rough, other times white painted. They are not much in use as the other type of fences. • Hedges: are widely used on the side of the road, their height varies from 1 meter to 2 meters. The predominant species are Prunus laurocerasus, Ligustrum ovalifolium and Lonicera nitida. In most cases they are well maintained and cared for
Fig.39: Wall fences
Fig.40: Hedges
Boundary Pedestrian roads
While we analysed the fences we noticed that there is a different use depending on the area and type of the building where they are located. In the residential area, the wood fences are used in the area behind the terraced house to divide the parcel. They are more than 2 meters high. Those on the street side are only over one meter high. On the street there is a high use of hedges, followed to a lesser extent of iron fences, wood fences and wall fences. In general the fences allow you to see inside of the private gardens.
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Undifine Green Area Parks School Playground Civic Space
In the residential area most cases of condominiums are iron fenced to separate the gardens from the street and internal divisions, sometimes with some hedges within. In the industrial area only iron fences are used. They are usually very high with barbed wire for protection.
Green Corridor Woodland Canal
Fig.41: Detail fences Private parcel
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Fig.36: Fences
Fig.42: Legend fences Pedestrian entrance Car entrance
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Fig.44: Normal pedestrian entrance
BUILDINGS - Entrances Fig.45: Normal car entrance
We can divide 6 different entrances to the house: • Normal pedestrian entrance: a path through the front garden towards front of the house (facing door) • Normal car entrance: owners use the garden as parking area and enter the building this way • Side pedestrian entrance: entrance at the side of the building, not facing main road • Shared pedestrian entrance: two houses sharing one garden entrance • Hidden pedestrian entrance: entrance located between the void of two houses • Shop on first floor entrance: shop entrance located on main street and residential entrance are at the back of the first floor (staircase provided at the side of the building)
Fig.46: Single pedestrian entrance
Fig.47: Shared pedestrian entrance
For the southern part there are a lot of houses where the entrance is laying on the left and right side of the blocks (not on main street), making it invisible to most passengers/outsiders. It may look that the housing block is only for two families, but actually contains four families. This is also visible in the private parcels. On plan it is notable through the blank space between blocks, this is most of the times an indication to side entrances.
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Fig.48: Hidden Undifine Green Area pedestrian entrance Parks
School Playground Civic Space Green Corridor Woodland Canal
Fig.49: Shop on first floor entrance Private parcel Wall fences
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Fig.50: Detail entrances
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Fig.43: Entrances
Fig.51: Legend entrances
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Fig.53: Milton Community
BUILDINGS - Non-residential buildings Fig.54: First floor nonresidential use
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Fig.55: Convenience Vehicle roads stores
Scaraway Nursery School
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AD Autobody
RT Garage
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Mim’s Entrprises Limited
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Combined Construction Ltd Electrical Engineers
Parks
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School Playground
Allied Bakeries
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RT Garage
To Let
Civic Space
Suppliers of General & Commercial Signage
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Balmore Industrial Estate
Milton Memorial Garden Reconstruction
PAKPoultry
Milton Community Garden
St Monica's Milton Primary
Cameron Bell Ltd
Connely Security System
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Community Market Garden Pilot Project
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Stark (electrical services) Ltd
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Colston Milton Parish Church
Suppliers of General & Commercial Signage Speyroc limited
In general this layer has little shown on what the current situation is. It is hard to define which or active and which or empty. The names on the buildings represents the firm but doesn’t show if it is still active or not. For those who are confirmed and are to let are defined under ‘to let’. The stores are mainly based as a first floor non-residential use.
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Fig.52: Non-residential buildings
Fig.58: Legend nonresidential buildings
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BUILDINGS - Building heights
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Reduce Speed Now
Vertical road signs
Fig.60: 2-store building Horizontal road signs Bus Stop
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Car parks
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Fig.61: 4-store building Street bumps
Milton consists of mainly 2-store houses, some 3- and 4-store apartments and 6 high rise apartments of 17 stores.
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A lot of houses comes with a small shed used as a parking or a storage.
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The industrial buildings are most of the time single floor buildings with a high ceiling. Industry buildings with offices are multiple-levelled.
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To represent the building heights we’ve coloured the building with different colours: • Light green for sheds • Light purple for single-storey buildings • Dark green for 2-storey buildings • Dark purple for 3-storey buildings • Dark blue for 4-storey buildings • Black for 17-storey buildings
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Fig.62: 17-store building Normal green garden
Fig.63: 1-store building
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4 storey 17 storey Fig.65: Legend building heights
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Fig.67: Two-way street
STREETS - Traffic direction Fig.68: Cul-de-sac All the streets are accessible in both directions. Although the street is accessible in both directions, due to parked cars on one side of the roads, it can occur that in the smaller streets there is only lane to pass one car at the time (from one direction). That is sort of a speed calming strategy on its own, because you need to go slower to allow to the other car to proceed. More or less 20% of the streets have a dead end (cul-de-sac).
Fig.69: Detail traffic direction
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Fig.72: Vertical street signals
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The vertical street signals such as for example rate-limiting, speed cut and turn signal are also part of the vertical street signs. They are situated on the horizontal streets Skerray Street, Scaraway Street and Liddesdale Road. Around school there are signals on reducing speed in school surroundings.
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While mapping these vertical roads signs we noticed some areas are covered with garbage. We then started to pay attention on the presence of public bins. There are public bins spread in several street in Milton, but some of them are missing or are not well maintained. Small acts of vandalism can’t be ruled out.
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Under the “street” theme, the bus stops have also been mapped, because they are part of the street furniture and also mark the places (making it also a signal) where you can take bus 75. The bus stops are situated in Ashgill Road, Liddesdale Road and Scaraway Street. There are regularly buses to assure a connection between Milton and Glasgow city centre in the daytime, but due to the winding streets it takes a lot of time to go there.
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There were no traffic lights recorded in Milton. This suggest that the horizontal and vertical road signs are good enough to regulate traffic. The absence of traffic lights could point to the lack of traffic or the small size of Milton (inhabitants wise). It also supports the easy lay-out of the streets.
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Fig.80: Tall lightning pole
STREETS - Street lightings
Street lightning poles (red on map) include tall and short ones. All the street are covered with tall street lightning poles, making Milton well-lit at night. There are some trees in the smaller streets that casts shadow on the road which makes the street lack of sense of security. The short lightning poles (blue on map) are only used at some part (mainly along the few pedestrian road). As shown on the map, there are not much short lighting poles in Milton, which indicates there are not many road for pedestrians. Residents in Milton will have to walk with cars. According to previous analysis, the road in Milton is not built in walking scale, and there are no short cuts among the area for pedestrians, making Milton’s urban fabric more auto-based.
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Fig.83: Dotted line
STREETS - Horizontal road signs Fig.84: Roundabout The horizontal signs are only in the main streets. Usually, in all the other streets this is used as indication for the street bumps. Different types of lines point out the division between the different lanes of streets, or the need to stop. There are also some arrows drawn to indicate the right spin in the traffic roundabouts. Finally, there are some signs to indicate spaces to be kept clear and as warning for the presence of a school nearby.
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STREETS - Street bumps Fig.89: Street bumps (2) Milton is a residential area. Over the whole residential area street bumps have been implemented to keep the car speed low. The vertical and horizontal signs invite cars to proceed with a maximum speed of 20 mph. In order to induce to the respect of this obligation, there are many street bumps along the roads of all the area. There are two different types of them. The first one is used in the main streets and is characterized by three blocks raised with drawn arrows that indicate the lane direction. The second type is characterized by the elevation of the entire part of the street bump and by two drawn arrows for each direction.
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Fig.93: Car park
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Fig.94: Parked half on sidewalk
In Milton there are very few public car parks. We can find them in the industrial area, near a school at the crossroads between Castleby Street and Liddesdale Road and then there are two big car parks in the North part of Milton near two big residential blocks.
Fig.95: Illegally (doubled car parked)
Milton is an area mainly composed by townhouses and each house has its own car park inside its private garden. Maybe this is the reason why in Milton there aren’t many public car parks and there is no space for parking nearby. The main consequence of this is the fact that people usually park in the “middle” of the street or above the sidewalks. So In this way the two-way streets are for half occupied by cars and the remaining space is only sufficient for the passage of only one car at a time. These car parks are legal. There is no indication of vertical signs that forbid this practice. There are very few illegally cars parked in Milton. You can find them in places on the grass or in front of the parking spaces reserved for the disabled or parked in a extra row on the car parks (when there are no parking lines).
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Fig.99: Public green spaces
VEGETATION - Public green spaces Fig.100: Playground
Milton contains a lot of public places going from playgrounds to long grass plots to well-maintained parks. Two playgrounds are situated in the north at the entrance of the 6 high rises.
Fig.101: Milton Park
Certainly, an important green public space is “Milton Park” in the northeaster part. On the left of Milton Park is another green space in the middle of a big group of apartment blocks. It’s not in very good condition but it is used as a desired route to go to the other side of the urban block. The biggest green area is in the southern part. It corresponds to the sport centre, “Glasgow Club Milton”.
Fig.102: Long grass plot
Community Market garden Pilot Project and Milton Community Garden are green projects lead by the community itself. Also “Milton Memorial Garden Reconstruction” is a garden born and grown thanks to the active and participative population of Milton. Between the industrial area and the residential area there is a green line of dense vegetation used as a visual and sound barrier for the residential part of Milton. In generally we can say that there is an amount of green public spaces.
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VEGETATION - Trees Fig.107: Row of trees In the vegetation analysis we noticed that the trees in the area are mostly deciduous, with an average height of about 8 metres. To make the height of the trees readable in the Final plan we decided to divide them into 3 categories:
Fig.108: Small group of trees
• Small trees, from 3 metres to 6 metres • Medium trees, from 6 metres to 10 metres • Large trees, up to 10 metres In residential areas there are small trees with some medium trees in the area behind the buildings.
Fig.109: Large group of trees
In the industrial area and in the parks, where there are the largest green areas, we have all of the three categories of trees. In some areas the dense vegetation is used to create a visual barrier, as happens between the industrial area and the residential area.
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The Residential Buildings and Entrances maps show the difference in architecture. At first sight the residential buildings look all the same, except for some apartments, the houses gave a monotone structure. The legibility is almost none. When we look closer and distinguish the different typologies, you can notice that there is some mix of typologies made in every street. They tried to mix at least 2 or 3 different types per street. This shows that the lack of variety is in the architecture and the used typologies differ not too much from each other. The basis for each typology is the same on the outside and differ in the inside (units).
The Private Garden and Fences map are compared to remark the difference in use and identity. Every private garden has been fenced. This is a quite normal fashion: people like to define their private space and territory. Even the shared entrance to the common backyard between two units are separate fenced. What is rather peculiar is the maintenance of the private gardens. Every garden is fenced to express their territory and property, but all the gardens look alike: very basic, a normal maintained garden. Except for a few individuals, no owner seems to use this private garden to express their identity. The gardens are not really well-designed and show no expression of individuality or originality. The private garden could have easily been swapped between houses. Together with the previous comparison we can say that in the time (mainly between 1946 and 1954) that Milton has been built and how it looks today, not much has changed.
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As last comparison we looked at the Entrances and Legally and illegally parked cars, we can see that there are several car parks in Milton. When we apply a 400m radius for walkable distances, except for the residents in the southwest, most of the residential areas are covered. This means that they all could use the car parks in theory (we are unsure of the ownership of these car parks). One way or another, the car parks are not used (if they are for the residents of the high-rises to use, not many does, this can mean they don’t have always own a car), in the other way, compared to the map of Entrances, people like to park in front of their house. The cars are parked in every street. Where the amount of entrances are low, there you can find car parks.
When we compare the Vertical Road Signs and Horizontal Road Signs with the Street Bumps, we notice a difference about their lay-out. The first two seem to have the same locations in Scaraway Street, Liddesdale Road and Ashgill Road, while the Street Bumps are put everywhere in 2/3 of Milton (residential area without Shieldaig area). This shows that the mentioned streets are of higher importance and focused on motorised vehicles passing through, while the Street Bumps mark the residential areas and the wish to lower the speed. You can also see this in the amount of bus stops only stopping in these streets. Comparing these maps with each other also shows the legibility of the streets: the main streets are marked with road signs, while the residential streets have the same appearance translated in street bumps. It is hard to know where you are.
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Trees & Slope On the next two maps we compared the Trees and Slope maps. The trees are mainly present in the Industrial Area. Out of the conclusion we described they made a barrier between the residential area and the Industrial Area. When we look closer, we can also say that the amount of trees become larger at the Canal side, probably because of the nearby presence of Possil Marsh and the Green Belt. At the steep slope in the Industrial Area we correlate a higher amount of trees grouped together. We think this is to prevent the soil from eroding.
Overall conclusion Summary
Milton looks like a normal town at the edge of Glasgow. It is a very residential area with little shops, churches and an industrial area. The residential area is divided by Liddesdale Road. To go from one part to the other part of Milton you sometimes have to go walking around because of the winding streets. Walking along these long streets we felt out of place there, and without reference points, so in the next phase an option would be thinking about decreasing the size of the urban block, create more roads and use more varieties of housing typologies. Landmarks, vista’s or other structures can be implemented to give Milton a stronger identity. In Milton there are no speed problems on the roads due to the few cars circulating and because the parked cars at the edge of the road slow traffic. On the vehicular roads there are only high lightning poles, which overnight creates an atmosphere not suited to a residential area, for this we propose in the Strategy phase to use low lightning poles to create more pedestrian-friendly streets.
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There are some community projects as “Milton Community Garden” that show there is a community feeling of wanting to improve the area and bringing more activities into the town. There are a lot of vacant and derelict spaces that can be used for this purpose, as well as the construction of new housing developments to attract more economy and people to live in Milton. This will lead to more functions that can help grow the community feeling. Milton seems to have little problem with the amount of green public spaces and tree vegetation. Although it can be said that the places are all monotone and left to grow wild vegetation. This give us the image that the public green spaces are not used. Causes can be laid to the high maintenance or construction costs, or lack of purposes and demands.
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References The University of Edinburgh. Digimap. Retrieved October 24, 2016, from Digimap, http://digimap.edina.ac.uk/ Google. (2016). Google Maps. Retrieved October 24, 2016, from Google maps, https://www.google.be/maps Google. Google Earth. Retrieved October 24, 2016, from Google Earth, https://www.google.com/earth/ Site visits 26th September 2016 & 15th October 2016
Figures list Fig.1:
Picture of full printed map of Milton on scale
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Preparations of themes and layers (1) On-site notes Preparations of themes and layers (2) Finishing mapping together Taking enough pictures Always have an umbrella with you Mapping on paper or digitaly Map per group Make it fun Organize the layers Google Earth Street view Google Earth 2D Legend final map Milton Final map Milton Detail final map Milton (1) Residential buildings
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