Kształtowanie sieci usługowej w nowym osiedlu mieszkaniowym

Abstract

The following were considered as the essential elements for programming a chain of services in a new housing estate: the spatial structure of the neighbourhood, housing construction, communication structure, population, effective demand of it and the economic effectiveness of that chain in particular. The influence of those factors for the dimensions, structure and lay-out of the chain of services is rather varied, the factor interrelations can basically bar any attempts at calculating the level of their weight. Housing resources are closely related to the number of people awaiting for their apartments, the latter value represents given needs (at fixed incomes and prices) to be fulfilled by the chain of stores, craft workshops and catering units. There is also a relation observed between demand for locally performed services exhibited by the neighbourhood population and the real transportation accessibility, which can be measured by the existence of pedestrian walks within the housing estate area, and of the external relations of the neighbourhood with other estates and the city's downtown. It can be inferred from the discussion that the economic effectiveness must be accounted for in the programing a chain of services. Knowledge of the said factors forming the chain facilitates is solving problems of general and specific location in that area. The attention is focused on the proposals to balance the demand for the chain of services with the possibilities of satisfying it as well as on the selection of methods of a correct lay-out of service objects in the area.