Balancing Working and Living
You may work in groups of 3 on this project.
Suppose you want to design a neighborhood which supports a wide range of social and ethnic backgrounds. You have planned a wide range of housing types, to support as diverse a population as possible. But you realize you will also need to provide a diversity of employment opportunities if all those residents are to be able to stay in the neighborhood.
Your neighborhood is 10 blocks (@ 1,500,000 sq. ft.) with a planned capacity of 870 people in 275 housing units, as follows:
Assume that you will achieve a basic/service ratio of 1:2.5. The wage scale for each of the household classes is:
Your job is to plan employment for an average of 1 person for each of these households.
Land Use Type |
Space per employee |
Parking space per employee |
Office |
250 s.f. |
150 s.f. |
Manufacturing |
400 s.f. |
150 s.f. |
Commercial |
1,000 s.f. |
300 s.f. |
4. What additional types of space would you normally expect to find in a neighborhood?
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