Urban Geography Fieldwork Enquiry Into the Central Commercial Area of Winchester
Investigation Design and Planning
The aim of the enquiry is to investigate and explain the patter of
land use in the central commercial area of Winchester by formulating
and testing a number of hypotheses:
* Similar land uses cluster together
* Land use is related to Land values
* Land values are related to accessibility
The city of Winchester lies within central Hampshire, in the South of
England. It is a medieval town situated in between two hills to the
south and north of the city. It is also a good bridging point across
the river Itchen. Many of the streets have been designated pedestrian
roads, and this particularly applies to the high street and
surrounding area where we are going to conduct our study.
The expected pattern of land values within the city centre will be
that there will be a peak land value intersection, and from this the
value of land will decrease the further you move away from this. The
prices will be higher on the high street and lower on side alleys and
behind high street shops. The reason I think this is simple supply and
demand. Areas at the centre of the C.B.D will have huge demand for
every square foot as they have the widest and most accessible areas to
try and sell their goods to shoppers. In Winchester there is a system
in place where upon no building in the C.B.D can b over three stories
high. This means that prices are pushed up as there is huge demand for
each space. This is also supported by the bid rent theory. The highest
bidder will always get the best land use. The highest bidder is likely
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... second level, and we did no take this into
account. This could have made some shop types nearest neighbour
analysis completely wrong. We could have also done a questionnaire and
found out the sphere of influence of each shop. This would show us how
each of the pedestrians we counted got to Winchester. This would in
turn show us the accessibility of Winchester to the rest of the south
and maybe beyond. Finally we could work out if people travelled by car
where they parked as this may have a direct influence on the location
of some shops, as they would get quite a lot of pedestrians passing
them. This is also apparent outside the bus stops and train station.
By doing this we would be able to draw better conclusions from better
graphs and data we collected, and would broaden our knowledge of the
area of Winchester CBD.
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