The quality of the pedestrian environment should be considered as a central defining aspect of the site layout and design theme for all types of commercial centers. Freestanding pad developments should be carefully located on the site in relation to the main commercial center in terms of scale, proportion and visibility. The building design of pads should be complimentary to the surrounding center in terms of materials, colours and design details. Pad developments should be integrated into the site design in terms of parking lot layout, on-site vehicular and pedestrian circulation routes, landscaping, and building design. Separate freestanding sites developed within a commercial center are referred to as “pad” developments. Shopping centres should not be designed solely as a collection of detached, separate pad buildings as this is the least desirable arrangement for providing integrated quality environments. It is preferred that commercial development with multiple uses and multiple tenants should be designed with attached or clustered buildings with careful attention to the interconnecting quality of landscaping, open space and pedestrian areas. The site design, which includes the orientation and layout of buildings, circulation and parking lot layout, landscaping, drainage retention and various other site features, should be designed with an integrated theme which ties the entire development together as a unified whole. Planning authorities have encouraged the establishment and revitalization of town centers. Then the 90s came along with the growing world movement of new urbanism and smart growth, a search for authenticity, and an even greater focus on entertainment and eating. Recreation time had been recognized as a commodity and hence the retail sector started to provide recreational opportunities such as: Cinemas, Cafes, Lifestyle retail, Entertainment in various forms. However one could see that the customer was beginning to demand better-designed environments to shop in and of course recreate in. After this we find the approach to shopping center design changed rapidly with greater amounts of style being created.Ī lot of this change was caused by the fact that most of the catch up to demand had been fulfilled in the 60s and early 70s and hence to achieve a successful shopping center one had to compete with various other retail opportunities. The large box design was modulated by laminating other smaller active buildings onto the edge of these boxes. As the 70s progressed we find a few centers starting to question the design and layout that had become regarded as typical.
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