This thesis was prompted by the belief that local residential streets could be better used and serviced if a common underground structure were provided for all utilities. Such a structure could not only get wiring underground, a desirable aim in itself, but also gather all of the utilities together in a narrow portion of the street. This would free the remainder of the street from the restrictions imposed by the utilities, and allow designers to create more interesting and pleasant environments. It was further believed that such structures might be feasible if the designing and servicing of local streets were considered comprehensively.
These beliefs have been investigated by formulating and testing the general hypotheses that installing utilities in specially designed underground structures in local residential streets would:
a) permit better use and design of such streets than is possible by current servicing practices;
b) be feasible (from functional, physical, social, staging, administrative, political, financial, and economic points of view) if comprehensively designed.
The scope of this investigation has been limited to future local streets in single-family residential districts of Metropolitan Vancouver for these reasons. Future streets would allow maximum flexibility in design and savings in servicing costs by proposed practices. Local streets generally have simpler and smaller-sized facilities which are most widely spread. Single-family residential districts are and will be the largest land use and hence, have the most increase in streets. Metropolitan Vancouver has been studied because of its proximity and familiarity to the investigator and its variety of servicing practices.
Street use is the use made of streets including such ones as playing not currently facilitated. The 'servicement' is that part of the physical environment created by property service facilities in the streets. Property services are those public services providing service to property as distinct from people. Current practice is the ways of designing and installing facilities followed at the present time. The term 'better' in the first hypothesis is interpreted in terms of elements of the public interest. These include public health, safety, convenience, amenity, welfare, and economy. Criteria of feasibility have been established for the evaluation of the proposed practices. These include functional, physical, social staging, administrative, political, functional, and economic feasibility. They are essentially different ways of looking at a complex problem. [ ... ] / Applied Science, Faculty of / Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/38424 |
| Date | January 1964 |
| Creators | Wiles, Franklin Arthur |
| Publisher | University of British Columbia |
| Source Sets | University of British Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis/Dissertation |
| Rights | For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use. |
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