Back to the future
WHAT would you like to see Wellington looking like in 30 years time? The Wellington City Council asked residents last year for ideas to keep this city great.
WCC has just released a statement outlining progress since initial data collection in September 2009.
Data collected from 154 individual feedback submissions and on behalf of 23 companies has been analysed.
Transport to, from and within the city was of primary concern.
WCC Senior Urban Designer Anna Harley says planning and design company Space Syntax has been commissioned to analyse our public spaces and transport networks.
“There are three simplified phases to their work,” she says.
First is an analysis of street and pedestrian networks where obstructions are removed.
“They take out the one-way streets and bus lanes and look at it as an open network, then examine the potential of that,” she says.
The ‘potential’ of a network is the economic benefits from increased retail that may come if obstructions like one-way streets and bus lanes were removed.
Secondly, pedestrian and traffic counts on the street monitor how spaces are performing with ‘obstructions’ in place, and see if improvements that can be made.
“Finally, the company will analyse the social structure plan and what else we can do to regenerate certain areas,” says Harley.
There will be a second public consultation round in February 2011 on how the city moves forward, especially in terms of worldwide trends like climate change, the idea of an aging population and technology.
WCC has just released a statement outlining progress since initial data collection in September 2009.
Data collected from 154 individual feedback submissions and on behalf of 23 companies has been analysed.
Transport to, from and within the city was of primary concern.
WCC Senior Urban Designer Anna Harley says planning and design company Space Syntax has been commissioned to analyse our public spaces and transport networks.
“There are three simplified phases to their work,” she says.
First is an analysis of street and pedestrian networks where obstructions are removed.
“They take out the one-way streets and bus lanes and look at it as an open network, then examine the potential of that,” she says.
The ‘potential’ of a network is the economic benefits from increased retail that may come if obstructions like one-way streets and bus lanes were removed.
Secondly, pedestrian and traffic counts on the street monitor how spaces are performing with ‘obstructions’ in place, and see if improvements that can be made.
“Finally, the company will analyse the social structure plan and what else we can do to regenerate certain areas,” says Harley.
There will be a second public consultation round in February 2011 on how the city moves forward, especially in terms of worldwide trends like climate change, the idea of an aging population and technology.
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