ENQUIRY C - VERTICAL ZONING

Aim:
In Enquiry A you investigated the ground floor land use of buildings in the CBD. What use is made of the upper floors of the buildings – retail, office, residential etc?

Hypothesis
Decide on a suitable hypothesis. Examples may include ….
As you move away from the centre of the CBD there is a reduction in the number of storeys in a building.
There will be more commercial use of the upper floors of buildings towards the centre of the CBD
Any residential use of the upper storeys will be found towards the outskirts of the CBD


Suggested methods
Mapping – take the classification table used in enquiry A and use it to map the use of first floor of buildings. Repeat the technique for subsequent storeys.

Annotated photographs to show vertical zoning both within the CBD and towards the outskirts and any possible changes.

the format for enquiry C will be the same as A and B:
aim
hypothesis
method
data collection
data presentation
data interpretation
conclusion
evaluation

being organised

LRC is booked as follows:
Weds 18.06.08
Thurs 19.06.08
Weds 02.07.08
Thurs 03.07.08

26.06.08 - working in L24
27.6.08 - working in L24

5. Typical shopper profile

From the questionnaire that was carried out, produce a profile of a typical shopper in the CBD. Select a suitable picture from clip art and label it according to your findings. e.g. a typical shopper travelled less than 15 minutes, is here to buy comparison goods, thinks that the CBD is very attractive and the range of goods is excellent etc.

4. Questionaire Graphs

4. Pedestrian count - proportional circles

A3 map with– proportional arrows or circles

3. Scattergraphs

You will need to produce two scattergraphs

1. To show correlation between distance from CBD (Mell Sq?) and overall shopping quality score for each site
2. To show any correlation between distance from CBD and pedestrian count

You may wish to carry out a spearman rank correlation to test any significance in the relation between the variables.

Make sure graphs have a title, axes are labelled and that there is a line of best fit drawn with a ruler

3. Shopping quality and street appearance survey

1. Firstly produce a table which shows the scores for shopping quality and street appearance for each site

2. Draw small bar graphs which show the scores for shopping quality and street appearance for each of your 10 locations. Make sure you use the same colour for each category at different locations to enable comparisons.
These bar charts will enable you to:
compare shopping quality at each site
compare street appearance at each site
compare overall score for each site

3. Now stick each of the individual bar charts on an A3 map at the location where the survey was carried out.

Make sure map has a title and a key
This A3 map will count as one of your complex skills