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Library Feasibility Study PR EPAR ED F OR District of Columbia Public Library Foundation June 2006 PR EPAR ED BY EDAW‚ Inc IN ASSOC IAT ION W IT H Gorove/Slade Associates‚ Inc. J U N E 2006 T H IS PA GE L E F T IN TENTIONALLY BLANK Contents 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Scope of Study 1.3 Design Concept 2.0 Technical Analysis 2.1 Existing Land Uses and Characteristics 2.2 Historic Resources 2.3 Natural Environment 2.4 Underground Infrastructure 2.5 Accessibility
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service provider services the needs of a large number of individuals‚ such as a public utility‚ like electric power. Shops may be on residential streets‚ shopping streets with few or no houses or in a shopping mall. Shopping streets may be for pedestrians only. Sometimes a shopping street has a partial or full roof to protect customers from precipitation. Online retailing‚ a type of electronic commerce used for business-to-consumer (B2C) transactions and mail order‚ are forms of non-shop retailin
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cars‚ buses and CNG ‘baby taxis’ are not known for the respect they give either to traffic rules or to each other. Pedestrians‚ too‚ often choose to ignore the rules of the road. Target Audience * Pedestrians- The most Vulnerable road user group • Pedestrians alone are involved in more than 47 % of road accidents and 49 % of all fatalities. • In urban areas pedestrians accounted for 62 percent of fatalities and in Dhaka city this is nearly 70 percent. * Drivers with lack of traffic
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the rapid rise in demand for car travel was matched by an increased supply of roads” (Silva‚ 2009‚ p.327). Buchanan’s approach was to restrict car use in towns. This meant that cars and pedestrians would be segregated from one another. “Cars were afforded their own generously proportioned network and pedestrians were safely tucked away in residential blocks often terminating in quiet cul-de-sacs” (Silva‚ 2009‚ p.329). Monderman’s thesis was created by Hans Monderman‚ “a Dutch engineer who in the
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2.9.2 Station Platforms a) Design Factors Transit platforms function as queuing areas for passengers waiting for a transit vehicle to arrive and as circulation areas for both departing and arriving passengers. The effective platform area required is based on maintaining a minimum level of service for queuing and circulation. It is important to note that transit platforms have critical passenger holding capacities‚ which if exceeded‚ could result in passengers being pushed onto tracks or roadways
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the library yet people choose to park their cars on the double yellow lines outside the shops. This not only affects the flow of traffic‚ it also causes more upset to pedestrians trying to cross the road. The lack of pedestrian crossing areas has an adverse effect on the pedestrians and differs from the advantages that pedestrians have on City Road. (‘making social lives on City Road’‚ 2009‚ scene 7) Dr. Simon Bromley informs us “conflicts over the use of public space and the different ways that
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2014) TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1: INTRODUTION 5 1.1 Background 5 1.2 Conceptual framework. 6 1.3 Overview of the study 7 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 8 2.1 Population Census Report 8 2.2 Research in Hong Kong pedestrian zone 10 2.3 Report and Abstract of Sham Shui Po 2007 11 CHAPTER 3: SPACE ANALYSIS
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needs of both motorists and pedestrians. The numerous controlled crossings‚ although help pedestrians access their destination‚ in turn has an adverse effect for motorists accumulating traffic and increases social disorder between motorists and pedestrians as they fight for space among the road. Contrasting in comparison is that City Road has developed a better infrastructure for meeting the demands of both the motorists and pedestrians within the community. The most
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Throughout this essay I will be drawing from what I have learned from the study materials to describe some of the inequalities on City Road in Cardiff. I will be looking at the younger community compared with the elderly‚ the contrast between the pedestrian and driver priorities‚ and finally the inequalities created by the different businesses on City Road. City Road has a considerable youth population. Not only is there the Cardiff Tertiary College‚ which opened in 1994‚ contributing to the influx
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