Land Use Proposal

 The purpose of this project was to find a site suitability for four different types of land uses. These land use types are community gardens, landmarks, playgrounds, and a path or greenbelt that would really serve as fairways for an 18 hole golf course in West Philadelphia. In order to create this site suitability, I first had to create factor maps for each of the four land uses and then "draw" over the areas that served as the best locations for each. These factor maps were created from data on the four land uses from the previous arcview class. The composite or resulting map was the final design that linked these land uses into a new type of park that runs through West Phialdelphia. This project is highly hypothetical. The processes of the development are below:

 

Factor Maps for the four Land Uses

   Each of these factor maps are based on a color change from blue to orange. The blue indicates the best location for the particular land use and the orange indicates the worst location for each.

 

 

 Playgrounds

 

This factor maps consists of adding the path, vacant lots and playgrounds and then subtracting the buildings.
 

 Landmarks

 

This factor map consists of adding the path, vacnt lots and landmarks and then subtracting the buildings.
 

 Gardens

 

This factor map consists of adding the path, vacant lots and gardens and then subtracting the buildings.
 

 Path

 

This factor map is a reclassification of the path data gathered from the other class.

 

 

Combining the Factor Maps

 

 

The first map shows how I selected the locations of the playgrounds, landmarks and gardens based off of the information from the factor maps.

   This map shows how I selected the path, which is derived from the path factor map, and how the path would start to serve as a layout for the golf course.

 

Final Land Use Proposal

 

 

This is my final land use proposal which shows the locations of the path (fairways) and how it interacts with the gardens, playgrounds, and landmarks to form a new park for West Philadelphia.

 LARP 601

 Critique