Determine the appropriate scale for representation for plan

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EXERCISE 3: PLANS II
Streets and Public Space

PART 1

PURPOSE
This section of the exercise will provide students with the opportunity to master scale and measurement while developing a working knowledge of representing the city to portray land use, the street and public space, while learning about the relationship between street life, life inside buildings and the buildings themselves.

Please look closely.

Make observations and act on them. Watch the sidewalk ballet.

A woman takes out her trash. Shopkeepers unlock doors and pull carts onto the sidewalk. A man hails a taxi as students pass on their way to the subway. Observing such simple actions over time, Jane Jacobs saw a "ballet of the sidewalks," an unrehearsed choreography of urban dwellers going about their business that, in her view, created the vitality of city life. She also observed four key qualities of healthy, vibrant cities. She warned that disregarding the interactions of these attributes - mixed uses, frequent streets, varied buildings, and concentration - consigns cities to failure.

SUGGESTED LAYOUT
Using one 18" x 24" sheet of vellum paper, draw one plan of your neighbourhood site, oriented vertically, representing the public space and interaction of street life (i.e. people, trees, cars, streetcars, buildings etc). You should include both sides of Dundas street in your drawing. The drawing will be prepared in metric measure, using your metric scale. Prepare an appropriate title block. Use black ink or graphite for final line work.

EXERCISE
1. Prepare several rough drafts plans of your neighbourhood site to help you determine the appropriate scale for representation for your plan. Ask yourself: What is the most appropriate area to show of my site? NOTE: you must include Dundas Street in your drawing. What scale should it be represented at to show the needed detail?
2. Once you have decided on the area of your site and surrounding neighbourhood that you would like to represent (measure the dimensions), select an appropriate metric scale for preparation of the final drawing.
3. On the plan show:
a. The area of your site and surrounding neighbourhood that you would like to represent drawn to scale.
b. Actual dimensions (feet and inches) noted along the segment of the street (i.e. width of sidewalk, width of street, and width of the frontage of each building or store as appropriate for the scale of your drawing). Important: Use string dimensions with an architectural tick. Locate dimensions OUTSIDE of the drawing area.
c. A title block capital letters and required information
d. A graphic scale (length proportional to the drawing), a numerical scale, a north arrow.
e. Public space and interaction of street life and buildings drawn in the solid and fenestration of the ground level facade, division of stores and residences etc. - to give idea of building life inside, sidewalk, trees, street furniture, people and cars.
f. Shadows from all of the buildings, trees, light standards etc.
ADVICE
1. Assign your space for the title block first.
2. Undertake research on scaled representations of spaces and objects to establish whether there are some conventions, which may assist you.
3. Be certain to reflect on the difference between metric and imperial measure depictions of the same numeric scale.
4. For (e) use the drawings of Allan Jacobs in Great Streets for inspiration and images in posted lectures.
5. The sun shines from the south for shadows and thus the shadows extend to the north. Shadows to be 1/2 the height of the building/object being represented.
6. Depict both sides of the street, including building frontages.
7. Do not use colour, this is not a land use drawing.
8. Check Google aerial and street view to look for clues on public life.
Exercise 3: PLANS II Online
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Exercise 3: PLANS II Online

- Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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