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Our map focuses on opportunities for future development of cultural shopping. Cultural hotspots have been identified within the old-city, providing an underlying base for existing cultural activity. Three and six minute walking radii have been calculated from each of these hotsposts, with MACBA receiving an additional nine minute radius as it offers an emerging cultural precinct.

Areas of greater colour intensity offer a better prospect of developing new cultural shopping environments. Metro stations are shaded blue and when overlapping with cultural hotsposts, offer possible magnification of success.

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download the print quality PDF here (not suitable for digital presentation)

our new work for this week.
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Our sub-group focused on cultural shopping within the old district. Travel distances between shopping clusters and major landmarks were also analyzed in order to establish connections between specific shopping areas within the city.
We will upload a full resolution version as soon as we finish readings class!

our sub-group has uploaded our mapping work for this week.
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Our sub-group has completed our mapping work for this week.

You can download our PDF file here.
You can download an excerpt from my notebook here.

Group 3 has completed our mapping presentation for week 2. We actually finished it last night, but had issues with uploading and printing, but that is a another issue all together. We looked at a specific area in and around Avinguda del Portal de l’Angel as this offers a wide variety of shopping experiences that will form the basis for the rest of the city to be analysed against.

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You can download an excerpt from my work book here.

You can find some of the pages scanned from my mapping diary online now.  More pages will be added as they are developed, probably tomorrow night.

View the pages here. 

group 03 has just uploaded their mapping assignment.

view the PDF here.

We had our first session with the mapping of the old quarter on Saturday. After a couple of coffees at marcat de sant caterina we split our group into three smaller teams, and divided each of the three main areas of the town into three (maybe a few too may threes?).
For our initial sweep of the old quarter we spent between one and two hours in each zones, followed by a quick regroup to discuss our observations and our methods (if they had changed from the original plan). It was a great five hours of wandering through the streets, finding new parts of the city that we were unaware even existed.

A second sweep will be undertaken in our smaller groups at night to record the differences between day and night life. Monday will be a world of model making for all of us I think.