Geography Coursework – Methodology – Centre Of Leeds’ CBD

For my geography project I visited Leeds to try and find the stinting sum of the CBD of Leeds. I needed to absorb land make intake of information as this would aid me investigate the first of my hypotheses which is the border oner to the centre of the CBD, the t aloneer the buildings as I counted the heights of buildings in my area on the geography field of operations trip and with the conferences info of the building height of the only CBD. Also I would make water needed to count the pedestrian scarper as this would help me investigate the second of my hypotheses which is there will be a high volume of pedestrians adjacenter the centre of the CBD .The entropy collection area was near the centre of Leeds CBD as I collected my information a musical rhythm Briggate as the edge of the Leeds CBD is near the tall office buildings.< a interpret to doom the buildings that our group had counted in our square B2 and shows scraped square >The two pieces of individual da ta that I collected was1. traffic count2. Environmental calibre perspicacityThe two pieces of group data we collected was1. Pedestrian flow2. dry land physical exertion3. Building heightThe individual secondary data that I will be collecting is1. Land valuesThe structure of the twenty-four hour period was that we were going to split the day into two halves. We collected the group data in the morning and the individual data in the afternoon so we had much more time to collect our individual data.Group dataFor our group data we split the CBD into gridiron squares and two people were prudent for recording the building height and land use for the buildings in the inclined area and to do four pedestrian flows and we did the pedestrians flow tabooside the townsfolk abode on Westgate.We did this so we could cover more area and hence the data collection techniques had to be the same through aside the whole year.For the group data we reckon the Pedestrian flow in a veritable are a at four polar times also we calculated of the building height of the buildings in my groups square and started straight after we got out off the coach. Also we did land use of the buildings for this we calculated what particular use a building would be.We frame in letters on a map of Leeds that sod for type of the building e.g. a=commerce, b =administration and so onAll the data in the Group Data was to be divided between all the groups.< The protrude on the left to shows my square which was B2 and the image on the right shows the building we had to investigate>Building HeightTo collect data for building height I worked with a partner and we counted the fare of windows of each building in our grid and apply this as the height, we did this because we didnt have the time or equipment to measure the exact heights. We then collected the whole of the years data and have a good number of buildings from each grid to suss out where the tallest buildings are also the Building H eight was fairly motiveless at times as you had to count the scandalizes on the outside of the buildings, only when there were problems counting the building height as we agreed not to count the cellars, merely some buildings on slopes had cellars at the back and backdrop floors at the front of the buildings and we did not agree to count these aswell.Pedestrian flowWe marked out four points on our maps equally distant obscure and took counts of people who pass us. One of our pair counted right to left and the other counted left to right so we could efficiently record everyone. We went to the Town Hall on Westgate and we counted the number of pedestrians who were travel either in or out of the CBD. We thought this was an ideal to do our pedestrian count as we were near the edge of the CBD, so it was an ideal place to count the number of pedestrians walking in and out of the CBD.Land UseFor this we used the ground floor land use of each building on our maps we had certain cate gories and we put them in the ones which best fitted the land use. We did this because the categories gave an idea of the type of land and what it was used for. We then collected them with the rest of the years data on a database to see the different land uses near the CBD. We had filled in the land use of the buildings in a table which has all the number of the buildings. I call up that the amount of categories that sort out the buildings was the right amount because if there were more categories it would have made it more complicated to organise the Land use on GIS, if there was less categories then it would have made it punishing to organise the different types of buildings in the categories. Luckily we had successfully had no problems classifying the buildings into different categories.Individual dataFor individual data I collected raw data for the two options I chose. I did this by going round Leeds CBD and recording the data. In the second part of the day we did Individual Data. I did 10 environmental quality assessments and I did 2 traffic counts as they took 5 minutes each and the environmental quality assessments were scattered more or less the Leeds CBD.<Showing the whole map of Leeds CBD>Environmental quality viewI did many of these all around the CBD of Leeds as I had done 10 environmental quality assessments and I had done many of these near the centre of the CBD as my investigation is to find the centre of the CBD of Leeds. I did many of the environmental quality assessments around the centre of the CBD (which I think it is near or on Briggate) and I did the rest of the environmental quality assessment sheets around the edges of the CBD. The reason I did the survey in different areas of the CBD was to see the leaving of the quality of the environment throughout the CBD of Leeds. I also thought that this survey was important as the centre of the CBD is supposed to have the best quality of environment in the whole CBD of Leeds. As the ta ble shows this is not reliable and the cleanest area is in Gourmet Pizzeria, St Pauls Street.< Shows the Quality of environmental survey I used>Traffic countOur group did the Traffic count in a busy location. We did our traffic on Bishopgate Street, beside Leeds Train station. The reason of us choosing the location was because it was at the edge of the CBD meaning the traffic that we had counted had been going in and out of the CBD. We did 3 traffic counts at different times but at the same location as we wanted to see the variety show of the traffic flow throughout the day. In our traffic count we had counted all the vehicles that came passed the road, cars, buses, taxis e.t.c. The most amount of traffic that had come past our point (the highest number of vehicles an hour) was at 2.30 pm and there was 1524 Vehicles an hour.