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PATTERNS of USE Martin Place PATTERNS OF USE martin place George Street George Street Pitt street Castelreagh street Elizabeth Street Phillip Street Macquarie STATIONARY ACTIVITY USE PATTERN DURING A SUMMER WEEKDAY Scale 1 :2000 (Accumulation of 6 recordings carried out on a summer weekday between 10am and 8pm.) Where stationary activity was recorded. Cultural activities 300 Commercially active Lying down Sitting on folding chairs Secondary seating Sitting on caféchairs 250 Sitting on benches Waiting for transport Standing 220 198 200 180 178 Role in the city: Iconic space with a strong identity. Function: A place to walk through and where people take a break. An open “urban 150 floor” offering space for a wide variety of activities. Major event space, especially the western part. 116 Appearance: A formal public space with several large and passive edges. 100 100 Martin Place is a well visited space with a high use rate nearly all day. Highest use rate is found from lunchtime and onwards. The types of activity here are of a varied nature but mostly people stop for resting on the public benches, for socializing or for café/ bar visits. Evening activities decrease to half of the day time activity and Martin Place is not part of the night scene in Sydney, but is merely used as a passage route to other 50 destinations. The map above shows where the stationary activities take place throughout a summer Number of pers ons weekday. Number of persons 0 10 am 12 am 2 pm 4 pm 6 pm 8 pm Time Stationary activities recorded at Martin Place. Recorded: Tuesday 20th of March 2007 The rest of the survey is presented in the appendix report: Public Life Data - Sydney 2007 64 THE PEOPLE 700 650 750 600 700 dixon street farrer place 550 650 600 500 550 450 500 400 450 Role in the city: Lively city destination. Role in the city: An anonymous space. Function: Many restaurants and shops that attract visitors. Function: A place to pass by and take a break. Appearance: Friendly,350 relaxed and green street with a variety of activities. Fine Appearance: Small public space surrounded by passive edges in terms of primarily scale, small active units and active ground fl oor frontages. offi ce buildings.400 Dixon Street is busy throughout the day, and experiences its peak in the evening, Farrer Place is not a place where many people choose to spend time. This space when many people come to visit the many restaurants. The cafe chairs are is mainly used as a lunchtime plaza or for a smoking break by offi ce employees 300 extensively used, while people also make use of the public benches. in the area. The 350main activity is people sitting eating their packed lunch on the public benches. As such, the use rate falls after 2pm. It is a fairly quiet place and the use pattern is very low. 300 250 Dixon S treet 250 200 179 Cultural activities 200 Commercially active Secondary seating 150 Sitting on caféchairs Sitting on benches 150 Waiting for transport Standing 100 94 85 78 100 56 Farrer Place 50 50 39 31 20 20 12 7 2 Number of pers ons Number of persons Number of persons Number of pers ons 0 0 10 am 12 am 2 pm 4 pm 6 pm 8 pm 10 am 12 am 2 pm 4 pm 6 pm 8 pm Time Time Stationary activities recorded at Dixon Street. Stationary activities recorded at Farrer Place. Recorded: Tuesday 20th of March 2007 Recorded: Tuesday 20th of March 2007 The rest of the survey is presented in: The rest of the survey is presented in: Public Life Data - Sydney 2007 Public Life Data - Sydney 2007 THE PEOPLE 65 FEW PUBLIC BENCHES FEW SEATS ON PUBLIC BENCHES Resting is an integral part of pedestrian activity patterns. Good seating opportunities give people the option to rest in order to be able to walk further and enjoy public life and the hustle and bustle of the city. Apart from the number of public benches other parameters are important in order to provide good quality possibilities for resting. Evidence shows that the seating most used is of good quality, has a nice view, suffi cient shade, and most importantly is located close to important pedestrian links. Good, comfortable seating placed in the right locations provide visitors with a rest and an opportunity to stay longer contributing to a more lively city. There is a lack of public seating along all the streets in the City Centre. Druitt Street LACK OF PUBLIC BENCHES Sydney is not a pedestrian city. People do not walk for pleasure and it is very diffi cult to fi nd a nice quiet public space to sit down and enjoy city life. There is a lack of public seats along the most frequented routes, forcing people either do without COMPARISON: a rest or to seek some kind of secondary seating such as stairs, Number of public benches ledges, monuments or directly on the pavement. Sydney with 15.000 residents in the city centre as well as signifi cant numbers of workers (220.000) and visitors (350.000 ) 2 daily visitors) has approximately the same amount of benches ) as Copenhagen with 7.500 residents in the city centre (1.3 mio. 2 in the metropolitan region). m (2.300.000 (2.200.000 m seats on public benches seats on public benches 3.380 1.400 Sydney 2007Sydney Melbourne 2004 1-4 seats 5-14 seats inner city area 2-3 km2 15-29 seats 30-49 seats 50+ seats ) 2 ) 2 ) 2 (1.150.000 m (1.250.000 m (1.575.000 m seats on public benches seats on public benches seats on public benches 1.250 1.380 1.560 Adelaide 2002 Stockholm Stockholm 2005 Copenhagen 2005 0 100 200 300 400 500 m inner city area 1-2 km2 SUMMARY SEATS ON PUBLIC BENCHES IN THE CITY CENTRE Public benches have been placed in 1.400 seats on public benches in the City Centre selected popular spaces and are not part of a general street program. 1-4 seats 5-14 seats 15-29 seats 30-49 seats 50+ seats 0 100 200 300 400 500 (m) 66 THE PEOPLE OUTDOOR CAFÉ SEATS RECREATIONAL CITY LIFE The culture of outdoor cafe life has developed rapidly in many countries around the world. This has signifi cantly changed COMPARISON: Number of outdoor cafées the usage patterns of city centres. Today summer activities are of a much more recreational nature. Drinking coffee is an uncomplicated way of combining several attractions; to be outdoors, enjoy pleasant views and the ever present amusement of watching people pass by. QUANTITY OF OUTDOOR SERVING AREAS Generally there is a lack of outdoor serving areas in the City Centre. There are approx. 11 outdoor serving areas along the 2.5 ) 2 km George Street from Central Station to Circular Quay and there ) 2 are no outdoor serving areas along Pitt Street Mall and very few on Pitt Street. (2.300.000 m (2.300.000 (2.200.000 m Sydney has 5.410 outdoor serving areas compared to Copenhagen which has 7.000 outdoor serving areas or 29% seats at outdoor cafes seats at outdoor cafes more than Sydney. 5.410 Sydney 2007Sydney 5.380 Melbourne 2004 TOO MUCH TRAFFIC NOISE inner city area 2-3 km2 The high noise and the traffi c pollution in the streets of the city centre does not invite for staying activities. It makes people seek away from the noisy streets - people move up, inside or under ground. For instance in the underground arcade at Town Hall is around 670 café chairs and at Australia Square is around 400 café chairs placed inside the block. This does not enrich public street life. ) 2 ) 2 ) 2 (1.150.000 m (1.250.000 m (1.575.000 m seats at outdoor cafes seats at outdoor cafes seats at outdoor cafes 7.000 7.000 Copenhagen 2005 3.440 5.750 Adelaide 2002 Stockholm Stockholm 2005 inner city area 1-2 km2 0 100 200 300 400 500 m THE NUMBER OF OUTDOOR SERVING AREAS IN THE CITY CENTRE SUMMARY 5.410 seats at outdoor cafees In general the retail district is undersupplied with outdoor serving 1-24 seats areas. There are many small lunch time cafes in the western part of the city 24-49 seats and in the business district - which is 50-99 seats characterized by daytime offers - most of the cafes close in the afternoon. 100+ seats 67 0 100 200 300 400 500 (m) THE PEOPLE MICRO-CLIMATE SYDNEY HAS EXCELLENT CLIMATE CONDITIONS Sydney enjoys the most enviable climate conditions, being at the southern hemisphere with only glimpses of real winter HEARING AND TALKING IN THE CITY and glimpses of extremely hot summers. Most days the weather is fair and the average temperature is somewhere NOISE - NEGATIVE IMPACT around 20 degrees celsius. This creates excellent conditions Noise is an unpleasant factor in the street environment. Too much for a thrieving public life where the most can be made of noise creates an uneasy and stressful environment, restricting what the city has to offer. talking, listening and social events. Different noise levels give different opportunities for public life to evolve. What is currently derailing the micro-climate (the sun and wind conditions at ground level) is the fact that tall buildings TOO MUCH NOISE have been built in sometimes very unfortunate locations, Sydney has tremendous noise levels in most streets and squares leading to public space being deprived of sun and instead Sunlit buildings - overshadowed public space.
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