Land & Transportation Interaction
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The evolution and change in mobility infrastructure influenced the land type and characteristic of Savannah from the very first age of its formation. The image in the slide explains this relationship in the context of lot sizes that evolved with transportation over ages. In the early era, when mobility was restricted to foot traffic, the lot sizes were compact, multi storied and encouraged mixed use of land. The streetcars helped in increased mobility and more access to the region. This resulted in larger plot sizes than planned town era. Although, streetcar did not fully provide freedom to mobility, mixed use development still existed in the form of corner shops. The decline of mixed use development was primarily caused by the dawn automobiles which gave freedom to mobility and caused the development of single use land parcels with much larger lot sizes. Also significant in this time is the concept of subdivision that emerged with segregated land use types and developed detached commercial districts (known as malls). Figure 2 & 3 in slide shows the connection of land characteristic and street network as seen in Savannah (Barnes 2014). Street network evolved with different modes of transportation influencing land character from mixed use high density in city core to low density single use development in the suburbs.