Development Methods and Principles for Planning Central Activities - Method for Measuring Centrality for Sustainable Development and Integrative Places

Abstract

The study investigates the possibility of enhancing the technique for estimating the level of development of central activities, both general and specialised, at the settlement level in order to improve planning solutions for sustainability. The conceptual framework reflects sustainable development and integrative planning, as described by UN charters, within which improvements to the modernist and functionalist approaches to the philosophy of planning central activities are examined and offered. The lack of a qualitative determination of the functionalist theory's importance in the field of sustainability is a flaw of the method of assessing its centrality. As a result, the author proposes an improved, integrative model for determining the state and level of development of central activities, which is based on existing theories and their improvement with qualitative determinations of territory integrability, using GIS as a tool in the process of creating a planning solution for the development of central activities for the needs of Amendments and Supplements to the PPO Pecinci. The research will focus on centrality as one of the features of the centres, and will give recommendations for improving the model of its assessment and development using the example of the PPO Pecinci amendment. In this case, centrality was defined and measured using theoretical models, resulting in a specific method for cases where it is possible to measure concentration but data on capital turnover, i.e. the level of frequency of use of a specific point of concentration, are unavailable or impossible to establish. The precision of this approach is directly related to the accuracy of determining the concentration of the central spot, and it is further characterized by the weights allocated to certain indicators in respect to the qualitative criteria.