Hello,
the work you mention, in Atlanta, where can i take a look at it? It's on
any of the symposiums?
And by the way, thanks everyone...
Victor Ferreira
At 22:25 05-05-2004 +0100, you wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > sorry to make a silly question, but we sometimes have basic questions:
> > We are making a axial line map, from the point of view of the
> > pedestrian.
>
>
> > What to do with highways that cross the city, bridges only
> > for cars, and high traffic roads without sidewalks.
>
>Unless you are seeing social paths on them then leave them out of the
>axial map.
>
> > One of them used to have sidewalks, but in the last years was enlarged,
> > and the city removed 90% of the sidewalks. Wat remains are narrow
> > pieces of land that are used as "shortcuts" between neighborhoods that
> > surround the road. We think we should let them out, since they arenīt
> > acessible for
>
>So here you are seeing social paths, so include them. You may well notice
>that doing so makes the local pedestiran space more 'intelligible'. Ruth
>and I have found that the hevely used golfcart paths in Peachtree city (
>Georgia USA) make the local configuration much more 'intelligible'.
>
> > pedestrians... but should we do it both ways (the car map, and the
> > pedestrian map?
>
>You definitly need two maps one for pedestirans and one for vehicals.
>Unfortunatly you cannot handle one way systems in axial maps (shame), but
>you do have to include car carming measures.
>
>If you think about it if you processed a shopping mall you would clearly
>need a seperate map for pedestrians and vehicals.
>
>If you check out John Peponis's work on Atlanta you also have to include
>overhead walk ways (pedestrian only bridges ) and the shopping mall
>public/private pedestrian spaces.
>
>
>
> > Thanks for any input on the subject,
> >
> > Victor Ferreira
>
>
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