Fourth Street South: A Walk of Urban Rooms. St Petersburg, Florida

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POINTS OF INTEREST

Study of Building Type and Scale

The diagram illustrate underdeveloped sites along the corridors. The corridor has many vacant retails spaces, as many business have gone out of business. Closed businesses create dead spaces for pedestrian, making the area unsafe. Dead or unsafe spaces prevent users from engaging existing public spaces with the corridors. The notion of insecurity limits the desirability of patrons from other area to support businesses in the area. Also, this diagram illustrate many active stakeholder such as The Pointers Institute, All Children’s Hospital, USF St. Petersburg, and Harborage Marina neighboring Third and Fourth Street South. They can serve as anchors for future development, therefore, attracting more user and energy to the area. 14


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