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Exeter
- 17 century- 3rd largest city
- CBD changed
- Growing university-student population
- Retirement city-recent change
- Isolated from cities-nearest, 30 miles- Plymouth-Large sphere of influence-large catchments area
- Was once a port (river exe)
- Now retail and tourism functions
We could study Burgess Model but it studies the whole city not just the CBD
Horwood-Boyce
- Zones of Assimilations-gaining new functions
- Zones of Discard-old functions are closing
These factors relate to changes over time-TEMPORAL
- 3 distinct Zones-centre—inner frame—outer frame.
Change over space-SPATIAL
Aims
- to see if Exeter has changed over time (temporal)
- to see if Exeter has spatial changes
Methodology
Data Analysis
From the goad mapping we made a bar chart. From this we can see temporal changes.
Vacant premises, IRLO, Quasi retail and others have decreased since 1987. But the rest have increased except Electrical and DIY and Restaurants. The pie charts show the same thing.
Pedestrian count
- Fluctuating, but mainly higher in the middle
- Highest-103 in 1 min
- Lowest-1 in 1 min
- Range-102
- The reason possibly for this is as the middle sites are in the core of the CBD there are more people around here.
- And the low counts might be that the site was in a back ally or at a time where the traffic lights where red?
EQI
- Fluctuating but tailing off from sites 39 onwards
- Highest: 44
- Lowest-8
- Range-36
- Reason because sites are in centre they would be more pleasing because of better looking buildings rather than old industrial.
- Also fluctuating because possibly opinions change between people doing the tests. Also cathedral very good looking made it a higher mark
Average building height
- Fluctuating but between 2 and 4 stories mainly, drops rapidly for sites 23 and 28.
- Highest-6
- Lowest-0
- Range-6
- Reasons for the high 6 possible because of industrial offices- v.high
- Reasons for low in the middle possibly around the site of the cathedral as there is no high building around the site.
Rentable values
Can see that the highest rent is in the core and the cheapest rent is in the frame.
The factors that might have affected the results are
- Historic Buildings-EQI will be high; also the building height around them will be restricted.
- Planning restrictions
- Human error-opinions with the EQI.
- High offices have moved-? To the river?
Chi-square test
Difference: function 1987 – 2005
| Function
| 1987
| 2005
| Row Total
|
| -
| Observed
| Expected
| Observed
| Expected
| -
|
| Vacant
| 21
| 16
| 11
| 16
| 32
|
| Electrical
| 21
| 21
| 20
| 20
| 41
|
| CR
| 45
| 56
| 67
| 55
| 112
|
| IRLO
| 70
| 83
| 95
| 82
| 165
|
| IRHO
| 82
| 62
| 40
| 60
| 122
|
| Restaurants
| 26
| 26
| 26
| 26
| 52
|
| Take always
| 25
| 30
| 34
| 29
| 59
|
| Quasi-retail
| 121
| 117
| 112
| 115
| 233
|
| Transitional
| 1
| 1.5
| 2
| 1
| 3
|
| Other
| 25
| 23
| 21
| 23
| 46
|
| Column total
| 437
| -
| 428
| -
| -
|
| 
| 
| 
| 
|
| 21
| 16
| 5
| 25
| 1.50
|
| 21
| 21
| 0
| 0
| 0
|
| 45
| 56
| -11
| 121
| 2.2
|
| 70
| 83
| -13
| 169
| 2.0
|
| 82
| 62
| 20
| 400
| 6.4
|
| 26
| 26
| 0
| 0
| 0
|
| 25
| 30
| -5
| 25
| 0.8
|
| 121
| 117
| 4
| 16
| 0.1
|
| 1
| 1.5
| -0.5
| 0.25
| 0.2
|
| 25
| 23
| 2
| 4
| 0.2
|
| 11
| 16
| -5
| 25
| 1.56
|
| 20
| 20
| 0
| 0
| 0
|
| 67
| 55
| 12
| 144
| 2.6
|
| 95
| 82
| 13
| 169
| 2.1
|
| 40
| 60
| -20
| 400
| 6.7
|
| 26
| 26
| 0
| 0
| 0
|
| 34
| 29
| 5
| 25
| 0.9
|
| 112
| 115
| -3
| 9
| 0.1
|
| 2
| 1
| 1
| 1
| 1
|
| 21
| 23
| -2
| 4
| 0.2
|
Chi-Square Value= 28.56
Degree’s of Freedom
Conclusion
Aims where
- to see if Exeter has changed over time (temporal)
- to see if Exeter has spatial changes
Temporal-Accept
- Chi test
- Source of data-council
- Sampled every shop
Spatial = Isoline-accept
Building height-Reject
Pedestrian count-disagree: human error, too little data
EQI-accept- but graph only dips on one side. Agrees with theory on historic buildings-EQI high.
Limitations
- Cathedral changed the results.
- Didn’t spend enough time to do each test
Further Study
- Data collection-more time-more sites
- Test different cities is similar locations
- Less/more historical buildings
Also See
Comments
These notes are aimed at students studying for Edexcel (A) Applied Geographical Skills exam, though will be suitable also for people studying with different exam boards and at different levels.
They were originally submitted by AbzDaDon in this thread on TSR Forums.
