Public Life Areas – Jönköping
Where are the most active areas in the city of Jönköping?
The above map is created by combining stationary and walking people per street segment. The map clearly defines the active urban center of Jönköping indicated by the high activity red color. The red color further to the east is ‘Vätterstranden’, a beach that attracts plenty of people. An interesting observation regarding the more green colors is that they are generally mostly housing with little through-traffic, little or no public amenities and close to no commercial activity – these neighborhoods can be expected to have a public life value of around 20, according to the metrics used in this observation project.
To get a grasp of how many people walked in different areas of the city I counted 443 street segments for 10 minutes each. To count the amount of stationary people I counted a total of 81 places, each of which was counted during 1 minute 5 times. All counting was carried out during sunny or partly cloudy days between 13:00-15:00. The walking people were counted during weekdays and stationary people during Saturdays. The amount of walking people were multiplied by 3 in order to get 30 minute interval estimation. The stationary people were not multiplied – due to the assumption that in general, people stay stationary for about 15-30 minutes. Regardless if this assumption is correct or not, it does provide us with an idea of how intensive places are being used.
