A central place has one special feature to offer to those who live or work in a city: easy accessibility from immediate surroundings and more distant places. Accessibility may be transformed into visibility and popularity. Therefore, a central place tends to attract more customers and has a greater potential to …
The broad scope of this Analysis Package is to understand the study area by comparing the subjective knowledge of the place coming from the inhabitants and your own experience, with the more objective knowledge coming from systematic map measurements. Hence, the work is split into two distinct work packages: the …
The scope of this Analysis Package is to help you develop a clear, informed, up to date understanding of the study area as it is today in terms of its population, land uses and environmental conditions; at the same time, this analysis aims at understanding what are the ambitions of …
The scope of this Analysis Package is to raise awareness of how the study area has developed in history to date, how that could inform its future development, and make it richer and more significant for the local community and the city as a whole. Becoming familiar with the facts …
It is surprising how often entire projects are carried out without a really in-depth appraisal of what is already in place. This happens in the professional practice, but even more often in academia, where the study of the original urban context is too often disregarded. That tells a lot of …
