Guide to Casestudy of Commercial Hubs for Redesign | Urban Design

Study of Master Plan in relation to commercial hubs

• Study all commercial hubs
• Number of Commercial hubs (existing, declined), where they are located?
• Their development pattern
• Analyze the road pattern and the roads linked to it

1. Study of the development from 19th century to 21st century
2. Study the hierarchy of the commercial hubs
3. Histogram, why they have declined? What? How?
4. Pick the successful commercial hubs right from the olden days existing uptill today, which have not been changed.
5. Analyze it, study the density, population, traffic, volume of traffic… traffic count
6. Classify different types of traffic (School Traffic, Office Traffic etc)
7. Commercial traffic – estimation in terms of percentage
9. Find the average percentage of commercial traffic
10. Analyze the parking facility for customers
11. Formal and informal parking area, road network, origin and destination survey
12. Know the in and around areas
13. Goods and transportation – loading and unloading
14. Godowns – shopping area connectivity
15. Landuse structure (Development pattern on a broader spectrum). For example, Grid iron pattern, finger pattern, Radial Pattern, Dead end pattern etc
16. Data Collection – Primary literature
17. (average number of people coming in a day to a particular shop)
18. Skylines, street scapes, neighbourhood (residential area behind the commercial hubs)
19. How it has developed? When? Why?
20. People willing to stay, people willing to vacate
21. Parking (is it sufficient or not?)
22. Neighbourhood commercial hubs
23. (the main commercial hub influencing the other small commercial hub)
24. Transportation network, density, type of communities