Human fieldwork; Kings cross Flashcards
Whats is our human fieldwork question
Is the King’s cross regeneration successful?
Why is this question a suitable enquiry?
- Small scale; the site is only 67 acres, so can collect date across entire site in a day
- Example of an urban regeneration projects; Geogroahically
- Able to collect data; Within walking distance and open to public
-Able to reach conclusion; with help from jane’s jacob’s theory
What is James Jacob’s theory
The most successful urban areas have; A high concernatration of users
and Mixed land uses
What were some risk and how did we take action?
-Getting lost; staying in groups and one person has a phone in the group
-Falling into canal; walking in pairs/single file on canal towpath
What secondary data coukd be used for king’s cross
Censor data—> to find out about people
Newspaper articles—>historically or where things used to he
what was the method we used for land use and why was it good )
-Land use survey; when we saw a building used for a certain thing we would tick it off in one of the areas we marked
-GOOD; does not require lots of equipment, able to survey entire site in one day, shows different land uses across zones
what where some negative of the land use survey?
Does not show proportion of each land use in one zone (amount in an area)
what was the method we used to determine how many people where in an area
Footfall; was quick to do and not complicated we counted the number of people passing at different points so we could see the amount of people in different zones
what were the negatives of the footfall count
They were at different times of day which makes comparison across whole site difficult
(should be repeated different times of day to get an average)
what time of sampling was used
stratified; entire sample is divided into sub groups
How did we present our results from the land use survey? was it good
Stacked bar charts;
- easy to read and see which zones have most land uses, so can pick patterns
-But; not show frequency of exact land use so can give false impression
What method did we use to present footfall? was it good?
Isoline map;
easy to pick out patterns of footfall (areas of same busyness are grouped together)
nothibg bad
Improvement to pedestrian count?
- Do it at a set time
- In groups collect people count in each zone at the exact same time
-to get an average return at different times of day and days of the week
improvement on land use survey
- Record frequency of each land use
-make sure the zones were/are propionate - make sure you confirm the land use by using secondary data in places where land use wasn’t clear
Over all limitations
The regeneration is not complete so hard to judge overall success AND did not consider environmental success
