The Central Business District by Raymond E. Murphy

Author:Raymond E. Murphy [Murphy, Raymond E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Business & Economics, Development, Business Development, Social Science, Sociology, General
ISBN: 9780202309583
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-08-30T00:00:00+00:00

Fig 6.7 Illustrations of procedures used in adapting the CBl delimitation technique to Durban conditions

The authors point out that there is a major characteristic of land-use composition of the blocks within the Indian sector which may go far to explain their relatively low index values. This is the abnormally high proportion of residential land and organizational land, the latter including schools and cultural organizations but little government use. This land-use combination is explained by these points: (1) A dichotomy of trade and residence typical of an indigenous Indian city is likely to occur in Durban. (2) The shortage of residential land for Indian occupation within a reasonable distance of the city center (together with legislative controls since 1943) has encouraged residential concentration in the frame. (3) The concentration of residences may represent a persistence of the pattern of first immigrant settlement restricted in expansion by resistance offered by surrounding White residential areas. (4) The growth of Indian cultural orgnizations in the frame is a concomitant of Indian residential development and may spur more such development. (5) The present level of Indian CBD services is immature in comparison to that reached by the Whites. It is a stage in the evolution toward a fully developed CBD in the western sense. Office, business, and professional services are little represented; investment money has gone more to residential blocks built above stores.

Davies and Rajah reached the conclusion that the CBI method is satisfactory within the Indian sector, but they felt that an adjustment of the statistical levels of the indexes was necessary to accomodate the conditions prevalent in that sector. They suggested the following four steps (Fig. 6.7):

Step 1 The city block southwest of the PLVI within the Indian sector qualified under the accepted standards of the CBI method. It Is assumed to represent the core of the Indian CBD sector.

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