Testing Hypothesis - The land use of Covent Garden typifies that which is common to the Central Business District of town and cities. It is possible to identify vertical use zones.

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Hypothesis

  1. The land use of Covent Garden typifies that which is common to the Central Business District of town and cities.
  2. It is possible to identify vertical use zones.
  3. The Sphere of Influence of Covent Garden extends beyond the city.
  4. Covent Garden is characterised by high levels of traffic.
  5. Covent Garden is characterised by high pedestrian densities.

I will be investigating the five above hypothesis in different ways.

Methodology

  1. Hypothesis 1 – I went round Covent Garden and recorded the ground floor land use (function) of each individual building. I gathered my data in the following table:

  1. Hypothesis 2 – I chose a street in Covent Garden and for each building in that street I recorded the ground floor use (function), number of floors above it and how they were used. I gathered my data in the following table:

  1. Hypothesis 3 – I had questionnaires ready to ask people 3 main questions, their answers were be grouped into the following tables:

  1. Hypothesis 4 – I chose a place in Covent Garden where traffic is allowed, for 10 minutes I stayed there and completed a tally showing the number of vehicles travelling past me, in both directions. I will gathered my data in the following table:

  1. Hypothesis 5 - I was assigned a street. I walked down that street and counted the number of people on it. The length of the street was also required as I had to find the density per 10 metres.

Hypothesis 1

The land use of Covent Garden typifies that which is common to the Central Business District of town and cities.

On my base map, which I have included, I have indicated the different types of land uses on ground floors of all buildings in the study area of Covent Garden. I classified each property by type, and formed acronyms to label the corresponding location on the base map

Results

I have made a tally of all the buildings that need to be included; the results table looks as follows:

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This bid-rent graph shows land use and the rent values from the CBD going outwards toward the edge of the city

It is evident that retail (Specialist) is the most common land use (30%) in Covent Garden, followed by another type of retail, Low Order Shops (20%). The least common is museums (0.8%), this seems fitting as it is the least profitable land use in the Covent Garden area. This is ...

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